Episode 17: The Ducks or Our Lives

<p>On today’s episode Spring is in the air! We’re walking around our neighborhoods like Fred Herzog, we’re cleaning our springs like it’s spring cleaning, and we’re finding zines that we should have reviewed months ago. We’re doing a lot of things, okay? We’re also giving a call to Jana Obscura!</p> <p>After Eric and Vania check in on each other, they check the answering machine for some good news.</p> <p>For this episode there wasn’t a question – there was just a plea: Tell us your good (film photography related) news. The calls came in and we were of good cheer!</p> <p><a href='https://allthroughalens.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/boysonshed.jpg'></a></p> <p>Walkin’ Talkin’ Fred Herzog! More and more we’re picking out a photographer for a bit of inspiration. This episode, we look at a few Kodachrome photos taken by Fred Herzog in Vancouver. He had been shooting since the 50s, but got his first show in 2007.</p> <p>Since many of us have been only getting out of the house for walks, we thought it would be a fine time to take a look at a photographer who was mostly known for just that. Fred Herzog from Vancouver, British Columbia, would take nearly the same route through the city every day.</p> <p><a href='https://allthroughalens.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/elysiumcleaners.jpg'></a></p> <p>Through much of the 1950s and 60s Herzog tramped the streets after work and on weekends with a Kodak Retina on his hip. He had been given a large format plate camera when he was young, but tossed it for the small 35mm.</p> <p>The body of work he produced is extraordinary. At this point in photographic history, color was seen as sort of cheap and gimmicky. Fine art photographers as well as street photographers used black & white almost exclusively. Despite the tradition, Herzog fell in love with color. And not just any color, but the uncanny, vivid tones of Kodak’s Kodachrome.</p> <p><a href='https://allthroughalens.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/pariscafe.jpg'></a></p> <p>His photo “Paris Cafe” from 1959 features a man look