Ed van der Elsken - Japanese fishermen off the coast of Japan's main island Honshu - image-1

Lot 605 N

Ed van der Elsken - Japanese fishermen off the coast of Japan's main island Honshu

Auction 1210 - overview Cologne
02.12.2022, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)

Ed van der Elsken

Japanese fishermen off the coast of Japan's main island Honshu
1960

Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 8.4 x 23.8 cm. Rückseitig mit Kugelschreiber betitelt, Photographenstempel sowie von fremder Hand mit Bleistift beziffert. - Traces of usage.

In 1959/1960, Ed von der Elsken and Gerda van der Veen, his second wife, undertook a 14-month journey from West Africa to Southeast Asia on behalf of the Dutch television Company to work on a reportage. Six years later, the photographer and filmmaker published his legendary photo book "Sweet life", which, through its radical juxtapositions, draws a visually striking summary from the impressions of the journey.

Literature

Ed van der Elsken, Sweet Life, Cologne 1966, n.pag., ill.