Ed van der Elsken
Subtitle: camera in love
By: content editors, Hripsimé Visser, Sophie Tates ; authors, Susan Aasman, David Campany, Nan Goldin, Colin van Heezik, Valérie Jouve, Paulien Oltheten, Hripsimé Visser ; translation into English, Sue McDonnell ; new photography, Wim Hanenberg
Contributors: Hanenberg, Wim, 1974- photographer; Aasman, Susan, writer of supplementary textual content; Campany, David, writer of supplementary textual content; Goldin, Nan, 1953- writer of supplementary textual content; Heezik, Colin van, 1977- writer of supplementary textual content; Jouve, Valérie, 1964- writer of supplementary textual content; Oltheten, Paulien, 1982- writer of supplementary textual content; Visser, Hripsimé, editor, writer of supplementary textual content; Tates, Sophie, 1977- editor; Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum; Jeu de paume (Gallery : France); Fundación Mapfre
Edition: English edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783791383255
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Photography; Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Other titles: Camera in love
Work titles: Verliefde camera
Description: Known for his unconventional technique and gritty, evocative images of people and places, Ed van der Elsken was a self-taught photographer whose work documented his own life and travels. This book offers a definitive overview of van der Elsken's entire oeuvre, including his groundbreaking photo novel and his paean to 1950s Amsterdam. On display at Amsterdam's famed Stedelijk Museum, the exhibition at the center of this book focuses on the museum's extensive collection of van der Elsken's prints, and on the renowned installations he mounted there during his lifetime. Essays reveal the photographer's early influences, including Weegee, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Capa, while also showing how his confident, unorthodox, and self-expressionist style paved the way for late 20th-century photographers, including Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Notes: Original Dutch edition: Ed van der Elsken - de verliefde camera, published by Hannibal Publishing, Belgium, in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, ©2017.

This publication accompanies the exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, from 4 February to 21 May 2017, at Jeu de Paume, Paris, from 13 June to 24 September 2017, at Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, from 23 January to 20 May 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Beatrix Ruf, Marta Gili; title: Biography; title: "Collecting my kind of people" / Hripsimé Visser; title: Photographing as a need / Nan Goldin; title: Under, outside and between: the elusive art of Ed van der Elsken / David Campany; title: Of photographers and people / Valérie Jouve; title: "An artist has got to catch life completely, basically": Ed van der Elsken: between film and life / Susan Aasman; title: "Aha, one of my people" / Paulien Oltheten; title: #EdvanderElsken / Colin van Heezik; title: Paris; title: Love on the Left Bank; title: Bagara; title: Jazz; title: Sweet life; title: Amsterdam; title: Eye love you; title: Japan.