CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/11/2026

Previously unseen photographs by Canadian color master Fred Herzog

More than a decade before William Eggleston made his first color photograph, German-born medical photographer Fred Herzog emigrated to Canada and began walking the streets of Vancouver, documenting the people, the places, and the color compositions that they created together. At a time when art photography existed exclusively in black-and-white, he quietly traveled by foot around his adopted hometown, making forays into the United States, Barbados, Curaçao, Guatemala and Mexico, producing an astonishing body of color photographs that were not known to the world until he was 76 years old, in 2007, when The Vancouver Art Gallery held the first major retrospective of his work. Pictured here, “Mom and Son, Halifax” (1969) from new release Fred Herzog: A Color Legacy.