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Main Street - Photographs by Fred Herzog - Interview with Fred Herzog by Allison V. Smith - Courtesy of Equinox Gallery, Vancouver

AVS: I love your photographs for many reasons. I love the light, the signs, the fonts in the signs, the postures and people you documented. The photograph called black man pender is super complex. My eye first looks at the man, his daughter and dog and then to the Chinese letters on the wall, and then the light on the Chinese antiques in the window. It's like three photos in one. It's like a painting, a masterpiece. What can you tell us about that moment?

 FH: …Pender Street is the main artery of so-called Chinatown in Vancouver. It is one of the largest Chinatown's in North America and comprises about 15 city blocks. In my opinion, Vancouver's Chinatown was its biggest attraction and an endless source of photographic possibilities. This has not changed. While most of the city has been modernized, this area has generally been left alone.

I believe this man was an employee of one of the two railroad companies. He was fastidiously dressed; if I dressed up like that, I wouldn't look half as good. Whether the man was black or white was not one of my considerations. I simply knew that this could be a good photograph. 

I have a letter from one of the man's daughters: "This was my dad and my sister. Both are deceased." 

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