burnedshoes:© Fred Herzog, 1958, Man with bandage, Robson StreetLife may be colorful, but black-and-
burnedshoes:© Fred Herzog, 1958, Man with bandage, Robson StreetLife may be colorful, but black-and-white photography is more realistic - or so it was said. For many years, color photography was considered an inferior and not particularly valuable medium. Classic black-and-white photography was undisputed in the art world, but artistic color photography was supposedly banal and amateurish, a commercial medium for dilettantes.In the early 1950s, Fred Herzog began to revolutionize established viewing habits and existing orthodoxies. As a pioneer of color photography, he developed a profound visual sensibility for the ostensibly inconsequential. He explored color photography as a medium with the potential for both great objectivity and great virtuosity, and provided a critical view of the banal, the ephemeral, and the seemingly meaningless. Above all through his use of color, he infused his works with a unique and compelling atmosphere, allowing them to appear, for the first time, authentic. (read more) -- source link
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