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ED. VAN DER ELSKEN - Sweet life

Title: Sweet life
Description: De Bezige Bij, 1966. Linnen band. Pp: 179. Dustjacket slightly damaged. Van der Elsken`s magnum opus."œOut of stream of consciousness photography emerged several distinct genres, the - personal`documentary, the diaristic photobook, the photonovel and so on. Another was the photographic odyssy, the photographer`s quest to find himself (it is generally a boy thing), the photographic version of On the road. The epitome of this genre is, of course, Robert Frank`s The Americans, but not far behind is Ed van der Elsken`s Sweet life. Whereas Frank criss-crossed the United States, Van der Elsken was even more wide-ranging. Sweet life is the result of a 14-month world trip that he made in 1960-1, covering West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States and Mexico. Sweet life was the name of a little tramp steamer in the Philippines, which makes its appearance in the book." (From: The Photobook: A history, volume 1 by Martin Parr and Gerry Badget.). Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Price: EUR 195.00 = appr. US$ 211.94 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1295643

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