1930 - 2019
Canadian
Man with Bandage
ink jet print
on verso signed, titled, editioned 1/20 and dated 1968 and 2009
20 x 29 1/2 in, 50.8 x 74.9 cm
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 CAD
Sold for: $25,000
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PROVENANCE
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
Private Collection, Vancouver
LITERATURE
Andy Sylvester, Fred Herzog: Locations, Equinox Gallery, 2009, reproduced front cover and page 11
Claudia Gochmann et al., Fred Herzog: Photographs, 2011, unpaginated, reproduced
David Campany et al., Fred Herzog: Modern Color, 2017, page 6, reproduced pages 38 and 39
Geoff Dyer, "The Odd, Otherworldly Glow of Fred Herzog's Photography," The New York Times Magazine, December 14, 2017, reproduced
Hadani Ditmars, "Vancouver Street Photographer Fred Herzog has Died, Age 88," The Art Newspaper, September 12, 2019
EXHIBITED
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Fred Herzog: Locations, November 4 - December 12, 2009, same image
C/O Berlin, Fred Herzog: Photographs, November 6, 2010 - January 9, 2011, same image
Equinox Gallery, Fred Herzog: A Retrospective, January 28 - April 28, 2012, same image
C/O Berlin, Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography, August 22 - November 1, 2015, same image, traveling
Fred Herzog occupies an important place in the history of Street Photography, and Geoff Dyer suggests in the New York Times Magazine that “Man with Bandage” might justifiably be called Herzog’s signature shot. It is a great example of Herzog’s technique of not staging his shots, but capturing the right moment by shooting in a split second. This work was shot from the hip, for the motion of raising the camera to the eye would have caught the awareness of the subjects, and the moment would have been lost.
An edition of this work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, and Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco.
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