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

 

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 x 30 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume I" by Parr/Badger
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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 x 30 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume I" by Parr/Badger
>> see more Vol. I picks here