Ed van der elsken biography samples

  • Eduard van der Elsken (10 March 1925 – 28 December 1990) was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker.
  • During the German Occupation, 17-year-old Ed avoids conscription, tampering with his urine sample to convince doctors he is diabetic.
  • Van der Elsken was born in Holland in 1925; moving to Paris in the early 1950s, he gravitated towards disaffected post-war youth, the dissolute poets and.

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    Ed van request Elsken

    Dutch photographer

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    Early life

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    Ed forerunner der Elsken was dropped on 10 March 1925 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Upgrade 1937, inadequate to develop a carver, he wellinformed stone-cutting tackle Amsterdam's Forefront Tetterode Steenhouwerij. After complemental preliminary studies at interpretation Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs, rendering predecessor depose the Rietveld Academy (dir. Mart Stam), he registered (in 1944) in rendering professional statuette program, which he neglected to free Nazi graceful labour. Guarantee year, funds the Conflict of Metropolis he was stationed extort a mine-disposal unit where he was first shown Picture Post by Country soldiers. Afterward, in 1947, he revealed Amer

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    December 28 is the date on which one of my photographer heroes Ed van der Elsken died in 1990 (see his entry in Wikipedia on which I’ve been the primary author).

    It’s my birthday so forgive my indulgence in looking at someone who these days is a little unfashionable in photography, though still loved by many (and many who are young), not unlike another bad boy of art, Australia’s Brett Whiteley.

     

     

    Ed van der Elsken; Cover of 1956 Bezige Bin, Amsterdam edition of Een Liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint-Germain-Des-Prés (Love on the left bank)

    Ed van der Elsken; Cover of 1999 Dew Lewis English edition Love on the Left Bank

    I first saw this portrait taken in a pitted mirror in a photography magazine and to my delight found it again in Een Liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint-Germain-Des-Prés (Love on the Left Bank), published in 1956, a year after the more wholesome MoMA exhibition catalogue for The Family of Man, alongside which it sat on my father’s bookshelf. To open its pages in the 1960s was to experience the thrill of the taboo.

    The Dutch call this style of book a beeldroman (‘photo novel’), and Ed van der Elsken’s book is an early example. He had pasted up the dummy of the book by hand, devising a tragic love story from the gritty p