From the Georgia Straight:
"In his later days Herzog sometimes bemoaned the lack of colour on the Vancouver streets of today, compared to the time when he shot its streets. “It’s boring now,” he argued, “because when you walk down the street you see only a grey concrete building with aluminum trimmings and a neat sign which you’ve already seen 200 times before because it’s part of a chain of dry cleaners or banks or sandwich shops.”
I do love his photographs and we are lucky he went against the current trend at the time to include colour in his photographs. Black and white was considered the standard for art and serious photographs and given the wonderful photographers working in black and white I can't really complain. I have taken down the book I have of his photography and will glance through it during breaks in the action in the Blue Jays games.
