For almost half a century Fred Herzog has been photographing street scenes in colour. One of the early masters of colour photography, Herzog's photographs demonstrate that colour photography is not the addition of colour to a traditional approach but an autonomous means of expression. His virtuosic handling of colour is early evidence that the medium of colour photography is governed by its own principles, and that colour is just as important for the impact of a photograph as its composition and content.
Claudia Gochman