Photographer Herman Krieger s 1994 s Blue River Anthology a record of what was and what may be after Holiday Farm Fire
Photography accompanies and accounts for photographer Herman Krieger’s adventurous life journey. From photographing for the UAW-CIO in the Motor City in the 1940s to (illegally) cataloging Soviet Russia in the 1960s, through his viewfinder, Krieger captures an essential essence, a flicker of the immortal in a mortal world.
Using his lens to point the way, Krieger’s film arrests the subject in time, creating a visible testimonial to what once was. After September s catastrophic Holiday Farm Fire, Krieger’s work documenting the McKenzie River Corridor at the turn of the century became all the more indispensable.