Pioneer Fred Herzog's delicious colour street photographs of 1950s & '60s Vancouver

The Canadian photographer, who once said: "I wanted to show the world the way it is", obsessively documented Vancouver, mainly focusing on working class people, and their connections to the city around them. He worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film for over 50 years, and only in the past decade has technology allowed him to make archival pigment prints that match the exceptional colour and intensity of the Kodachrome slide.

In this respect, his photographs can be seen as a pre-figuration of the New Colour photographers of the seventies. Now, highlights of his wonderful work can be enjoyed in a new book entitled Fred Herzog Modern Color, which brings together over 230 images, many never before reproduced, and featuring essays by acclaimed authors David Campany and Hans-Michael Koetzle.

Published by Hatje Cantz, the book is the most comprehensive publication on this important photographer to date. Discover more at www.hatjecantz.de.

All images courtesy of Hatje Cantz. Main image: Main Barber, 1968 – © Fred Herzog