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1 review
Ed van der Elsken

H. N. Abrams, 1966

My Favorite Book of Photography
This book never fails to impress and inspire me each time I time I flip through it. It's so rare now to see a book this large of gel prints- the book and the photographs give me the same feelings that LPs do. It's the feeling that the art contained within was constructed in a very physical, primitive way, and that that somehow endows it with hundreds of times the detail and character that a ...

Love on the Left Bank

2 reviews
Ed van der Elsken

Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2002

Gritty Noir Look at Amour Among the Demimonde
"It was the autumn of 1956. That night I had made love to Ann for the first time." Thus the narrative begins in this facsimile edition of the great 1954 fictional story of Geri, Ann, and Manuel on the Left Bank of Paris. Think of this story as the illustrated version of Kerouac's "On the Road" for the bohemians from abroad living in Paris at the same time. Anyone who has visited Paris has ...

Ed van der Elsken: Jazz
Jan Vrijman, Hugo Claus, ...

Edition 7L, 2007

Jazz was originally published in 1959, and since then it has become one of the most collectible photography books of the mid-twentieth century, ranking alongside the more widely known work of Christer Stromholm and Robert Frank. Like William Claxton's Jazzlife and Dennis Stock's Jazz Street, van der Elsken's entry into the niche of music photography appeared just before the decisive moment when rock cemented its place as the popular music ...

Ed van Der Elsken: Long Live Me
Ed van der Elsken, 1997

Van der Elsken was one of the top international figures in his genre; street photography. His work was extensively presented at the 1997 Documenta. The Amsterdam Historical Museum has devoted an exhibition to his lesser known work as a film maker. The accompanying book investigates the relation between Van der Elsken's ways of handling photography and film in a series of articles, from the first comprehensive study of the complete ...

ED VAN DER ELSKEN: PARIS 1950-1954
ED). Van Der Elsken, Ed, & Shoichi Yui (VAN DER ELSKEN

Libroport Co., Ltd., 1990

Jazz/1955-1959-61

1 review
Ed Van Der Elsken

Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap), 1993

Photo Arrangement Not as Artistic as in the 1959 Versions, But More Photos and Less Expensive
The 1959 Dutch* and German** original hardcover versions of this book are about 110 pages and 17cm square, and have about 100 great B&W photos of jazz performers in concert*** artfully arranged on 79 pages. They are famous (e.g., included in "Book of 101 Books," "Open Book," and "Photobook: A History"), but uncommon and pricey. This 25x25cm softcover has a blue photographically-illustrated ...