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Ed Van der Elsken - Sweet Life, DuMont, 1966, Van der Elsken


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Hardcover, cloth bound with photoillustrated dustjacket, German translation and one page of graphics by Ferdinand Kriwet.

"In 1960, armed with two magazine commissions and a stipend from Netherlands television, Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) and his wife Gerda set off on a fourteen-month journey around the world, from West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan to the United States and Mexico. Six years after their return, he published his travelogue Sweet Life (named after a little tramp steamer in the Philippines): a sprawling, exuberant chronicle of their journey and his encounters with a range of people in the streets, from joyous lovers to destitute down-and-outs. The book itself exhibited a panoply of layout effects: double-page bleeds, crops, printed in deep gravure, and different cover designs for each of the six countries in which it was published." (from the Errata Editions reprint)

Pages: 179

Place: Köln

Year: 1966

Publisher: DuMont

Size: 30 × 30 cm (approx.)

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