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She started taking photographs in 1997 and studied photographic printing techniques with Italian printer Ivan Dalla Tana in Milan and later with French printer Marc Valesella. Herzog combines some of the very early photographic darkroom processes with contemporary and her own techniques to achieve her desired effects.
Nicole Kidman & Damian Lewis Morocco (2013) pigment print © Lena Herzog
Aug 29, 2011 · A breathtaking image by Lena Herzog opens Ian Frazier’s story this week on Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests —kinetic sculptures, resembling giant animal skeletons, that can walk on the beach ...
- Jessie Wender
After discovering photography in the late 1990s, she apprenticed to Italian and French master printers, focusing on early and alternative photographic processes. Open to experimentation in her darkroom, Herzog combined techniques from the beginning of the photographic medium, like Pyrogallol, with contemporary digital ones.
Lena Herzog is a visual artist and photographer who develops thoughts and ideas as well as images. In his introduction to their conversation, Entitled Opinions host Robert Harrison suggests that her camera follows Joseph Conrad’s aesthetic creed to “render the highest kind of justice to the visible world.”.
Herzog uses a combination of unique processes for developing her negatives and printing her photographs, resulting in images with tonal subtleties, palpable texture, superb clarity and resonance. This book reproduces Herzog’s prints that were exhibited at the International Center of Photography in New York in 2010.
May 19, 2016 · A feature by Cynthia Haven Music & Literature found photographer Lena Herzog early on a February morning at a San Francisco landmark, the Renaissance Forge.
