Ed van der Elsken – Een Liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint-Germain-des-Prés bertien van manen

Ed van der Elsken – Een Liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint-Germain-des-Prés bertien van manenLudion 2015 This is a facsimile edition of one of the classic photography books of the 20th century. Originally published in 1956, the book focuses on the Left Bank of Paris at the time when the area was a centre of creative ferment and the home of the artists, writers and aesthetes who would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. With its unconventional, gritty, snapshot like technique the work was widely acclaimed as expanding the boundaries

a certain antisocial energy and imperfect freedom that is both pure and naïve

subjective

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contrary to Alvermann’s vision for the project

Balk engenders precious moments of pause and contemplation

ambient scroll of information: pictures from my archive

his attitude was more that of a flaneur than of a photographer

and compelling as the work of a traditional artist

This book reproduces Guidi’s own prints from the period

Too many voices combined

the book offers both an accessible introduction and a detailed

With an essay by editor Erin O’Toole