Photographers Frank, Herzog, Lindbergh: their work and legacy
Above/featured: Underpass in Munich, unnamed photographer (Pxhere CC-BY-2.0).
In the past week have passed away three photographers: Robert Frank, Fred Herzog, and Peter Lindbergh. Their photographic work, stories, structure, and practice have provided important elements to my photography education. The following is a brief summary who they were, the work for which they’re best known, and examples of their images from Instagram and documentary videos from YouTube.
Robert Frank
• Swiss-American photographer, known for exploration of postwar US in “The Americans“.
• How “The Americans” redefined what a photography book could be, LensCulture.
• The Shock of “The Americans”, The New Yorker.
• Pace/McGill Gallery, New York.
• Born 9 Nov 1924 in Zürich, Switzerland; died 9 Sep 2019 in Inverness, NS, Canada.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2P9aVGnhxu/
Fred Herzog
• German-Canadian photographer whose work was discovered and celebrated late in life
• Colour pictures of a vibrant but disappeared Vancouver, from the 1950s to the 1980s.
• “The collision: Fred Herzog, the Holocaust and me”: Marsha Lederman, Globe & Mail.
• Equinox Gallery, Vancouver.
• Born 21 Sep 1930 in Bad Friedrichshall, Germany; died 9 Sep 2019 in Vancouver, Canada.
Peter Lindbergh
• German photographer, fashion and portraits.
• His pictures helped create and elevate “supermodels” to pop icon status in 1990s.
• A realist approach against the artifice of high fashion, DW (in English).
• All about Lindbergh.
• Born 23 Nov 1944 in Lezno, Poland; died 4 Sep 2019 in Paris, France.
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5 Responses to “Photographers Frank, Herzog, Lindbergh: their work and legacy”
Henry, thank you , for honoring those amazing photographers. I certainly admire Robert Frank’s work, he is one of the most outstanding photographers, who made history in the world of photography, especially his street photography.
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Hi, Cornelia, and thank you for your kind comment. Do you have any favourite(s) from Frank’s work? My favourite images from “The Americans” are: “Trolley, New Orleans” (1955) and “Charleston, South Carolina” (1955).
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Henry, I don’t really have any specific image as my favor, I just like the entire collection of the book ” The Americans”
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I remember recommendations about seeing a lot of art, especially different kinds of art. That got me to reading more about the history of photography. I’ve an ongoing list of 20th-century artists to “study” including Gordon Banks, Robert Evans, Joel Meyerowitz, and Lee Miller, to name just four. I often find myself going back and looking at pictures by those I started at the “beginning”, including Atget, Bourke-White, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Chim, Kertesz, etc. It was from reading about Capa that I learned about the first recognized woman war photographer, Gerda Taro.
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Hi Henry, I happen to know about all of those photographers you have mentioned. Back than some 25 years ago I went for a degree of photography at a college here in California, among all the classes I studied the history of photography, were still I am referring to their amazing work.
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