Ed van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken (born March 10, 1925 in Amsterdam , † December 28, 1990 in Edam ) was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker who grew up in the Amsterdam residential district of Betondorp . He made a name for himself as a street photographer , travel photographer - he traveled to Japan more than a dozen times - and chronicler of the hippie movement.
Life
Throughout his life he used the city and the street as his stage and photographed the life going on there.
In 1937 he began training as a sculptor , which he broke off. After the Second World War, he then turned to photography. He was particularly interested in the photographer Weegee and his book Naked City .
In 1950 he went to Paris, where he initially worked as a photo lab technician for the Magnum Photos agency . During this time, the book Love in St.-Germain-des-Prés , which was to appear in 1956, was written. The publication of the illustrated book brought immediate international fame.
From the 1970s he was also successful as a filmmaker. For his film Die Verliebte Kamera he was awarded the State Prize of the Netherlands for Film in 1971 . His last film Bye (1990) is about his cancer and the fatal end.
In 2017 the Stedelijk Museum is showing a large retrospective exhibition entitled “De Verliefde Camera”, which can be seen in Paris and Madrid in addition to Amsterdam .
Publications
Photo books
- Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint Germain des Prés (German title: Liebe in St. Germain des Prés ) (1956)
- Bagara (German title: Dasreal Afrika ) (1958)
- Jazz (1959)
- Dans Theater (1960)
- de Jong & van Dam NV 1912-1962 (1962)
- Sweet life (1966)
- Wereldreis in foto's four delen (1967–1968)
- Eye Love You (1977)
- Zomaar een sloot ergens bij Edam (1977)
- Hello! (1978)
- Amsterdam! Oude foto's 1947-1970 (1979)
- Avonturen op het land (1980)
- Parijs! Photos 1950-1954 (1981)
- Amsterdam? , Bert Bakker publishing house (1984)
- Are you famous? - La grande parade in het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1985)
- San-jeruman-de-pure no koi (1986)
- Jong Nederland 'Adorabele rotzakken' (1987)
- Japan 1959-1960 (1987)
- De ontdekking van Japan (1988)
- Natlab (1989)
- Once upon a time (1991)
- L'Amour - Foto's 1950-1990 , Van Gennep, Amsterdam 1995 ISBN 9055150509
- Hong Kong (1997)
- Leve ik! , Paradox, Edam 1997
- Sweet life. Photography and film 1949-1990 , catalog Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 2000 ISBN 3-7757-0919-3
- Eye love you. Ed van der Elsken Fotografies + films (1949-1990) , Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona 2001
- Phaidon 55's: Ed van der Elsken , Phaidon Press, London 2001 (text by Hripsimé Visser) ISBN 9780714840772
- My Amsterdam , De Verbeelding Publishing, Pays-Bas 2005
- Looking For Love On The Left Bank , Aman Iman Publishing, Villejuif 2013, ISBN 9782953391091
Films (selection)
- 1961: Dylaby (short film)
- 1963: Welkom in het leven, lieve kleine
- 1967: Het Waterlooplein verdwijnt (short film)
- 1971: De ran camera
- 1972: Death in the Port Jackson Hotel
- 1980: Avonturen op het land (documentary film)
- 1990: Bye (TV movie)
Exhibitions
- 2017: De Verliefde Camera , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
- 2013: Love on the Left Bank , Galerie VU, Paris
- 2013: Love on the Left Bank , Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
- 2012: Look Ed! , Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2011: Ed van der Elsken , Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
- 2010: Tokyo Symphony , Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
- 2010: Ed van der Elsken , Kicken Berlin
- 2009: Het Waterlooplein , with Lo Andela , NFTA, Amsterdam
- 2009: My Amsterdam , Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York
- 2008: Amsterdam! , Galerie f5,6, Munich
- 2005: Summer Show , Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2005: Love on the Left Bank , Museum of Art, Kochi
- 2005: Eye for Cats , Het Kattenkabinet, Amsterdam
- 2005: My Amsterdam , (curated by Martin Parr), Foam, Amsterdam
- 2004: Bagara 1957: 45 photographs of Africa , De Hallen Haarlem, Pays-Bas
- 2003: Adventures in the Countryside , Edam
- 2003: Love on the Left Bank , Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
- 2002: Long Live Me! , Palazzina di Giardini, Modène
- 2002: Ed van der Elsken , Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan
- 2001: Ed van der Elsken, Paris: "Love on the Left Bank" , Kicken Berlin
- 2001: Eye love you , La Caixa, Barcelone, Museum de Beyerd, Breda
- 2001: Ed van der Elsken , Photographers' Gallery, Londres
- 2000: Show Who You Are , Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2000: Ed van der Elsken: Sweet Life. Photography + Film 1949-1990 , Wolfsburg Art Museum , Wolfsburg
- 1999: L'Amour , Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris
- 1998: Ed van der Elsken: Hong Kong, Stadthaus Ulm
- 1997: Ed van der Elsken: Hong Kong , Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
- 1996: Ed van der Elsken, L'Amour! Foto's 1950-1990 , Kunsthal, Rotterdam
- 1996: Love on the Left Bank, Paris 1950-1954 , Photographers' Gallery, Londres
- 1996: Ed van der Elsken, Entre film et photos , Institut Néerlandais, Paris
- 1994: Paris in the 1950s , Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main
- 1994: Ed van der Elsken in kleur , Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
- 1994: Ed van der Elsken: Once Upon a Time, foto's 1950-1990 , Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris
- 1994: Ed van der Elsken: Once Upon a Time, foto's 1950-1990 , Fotomuseum Winterthur
- 1993: Ed van der Elsken: Once Upon a Time, foto's 1950-1990 , Daimaru department store, Osaka
- 1993: Ed van der Elsken: Once Upon a Time, foto's 1950-1990 , Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
- 1993: Autoportrait , Citroën Gallery, Amsterdam
- 1991: Ed van der Elsken: Once Upon a Time, foto's 1950-1990 , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 1986: L'Amour à Saint-Germain-des-Prés , Printemps, Tokyo
- 1977: Eye Love You , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 1966: Hee ... zie je dat , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- undated : Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint-Germain-des-Prés , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of the Stedelijk Museum exhibition ( Memento des Originals from March 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 13, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elsken, Ed van der |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch photographer and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1990 |
| Place of death | Edam |