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Link: When Fred Herzog Saw in Black and White

The Tyee reminds us of When Fred Herzog Saw in Black and White.

Celebrated as a master of colour, the Vancouver photographer had a different side, now on display.

New a new book show the work he was less known for: black and white. Work published posthumously as Fred Herzog passed away in 2019. This last article shows you a good sample of his colour work, and also relate of the difficulty of shooting in colour.

I discovered Fred Herzog through one of his books at a barber shop in Vancouver when I lived there. What fascinated me was the colour photography of Vancouver, from a time where black & white was the dominant form of photography, mostly due to technology and cost. Pictures of an ever changing city, where heavy transformations make large parts of a city disappear, to be replaced. It showed us the city as it was, and the colour offered us a more realistic feel.

It inspired me.

Manhattan city in the 1940’s

Business Insider has an exhibit of color pictures of Manhattan from the 1940’s and 1960’s by amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman. The collection is maintained by Indiana University. All shot on Kodachrome.

Frank Larson

Frank Larson a not known photographers from the 50’s and 60’s. Check out his work, mostly centered on New York.

Russia in Color (1910)

This time it is the Big Picture from the Boston Globe to present an exhibit about Russia in Color, with these autochromes from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection at the Library of Congress (USA).

General view of the [Nikolaevskii] cathedral from southwest. Mozhaisk – Prokudin-Gorskiï, Sergeï Mikhaïlovich, 1863-1944, photographer – From Library of Congress

Also I recommend the Big Picture as a regular “reading” for the pictures.

Color from 1906

Dr. Michael R. Shaughnessy put up a gallery of scanned true color images from 1906 with geolocalisation added. This is pretty amazing to see various european locations in color.

1906 True Color Photos scanned from old prints. Part of CAPL project at Washington & Jefferson College http://capl.washjeff.edu/ by Dr. Michael R. Shaughnessy. Please cite if linked or embedded. I am not sure of the copyright holder at this point and hope to place them under CC licensing for non-commercial use. These photos were originally published by the Institute for Color Photography, Carl Weller, Berlin. Verlagsanstalt fÃ¼r Farbenfotographie, 1906. Send any info to capl@washjeff.edu

Here are a few samples – see above for the copyright notice:

Pisa, Italy

Goethe’s Gartenhaus, Weimar, Germany

Prague, Czech Republic

Via Boing Boing.

America in Color 1939-1943

The Denver Post Photo Blogs has an exhibit called “Captured: America in Color 1939-1943”.

Some stunning images taken between 1939 and 1943 depicting America, in Color. When I think about that period, I most of the time imaging black & white, because it was the predominant form of photography at the time. But color film, was already available, even to the general public.

That’s the kind of photography I love, depicting people, in everyday situations, to form our memories (of the past).

Via Boing Boing.