Groenburgwal, Amsterdam, 1956
silver gelatin print, analogue barite print on Ilford neutral tone paper
Paper: 50 x 60cm
Edition of 20
Exhibitions
Be(com)ing Dutch, 24/05-14/09 2008, van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
2008 Be[com]ing Dutch, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Nl
Literature
Elsken, Ed van der. Amsterdam! Old Photographs 1946-1970. Top Notch vof, Uitgeverij Bas Lubberhuizen, Lecturis, 2014.
Elsken, Ed van der. Jong Nederland. “Adorabele Rotzakken” 1947-1987. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1987
Brödbeck, A., Lütgens, A. Ed van der Elsken: Fotografie + Film 1949-1990.[exh.cat]. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2000.
Elsken, Ed van der. Once Upon a Time. Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1992.
Broek, M. Van den, C. Ruys. Nederland, de 1000 beste foto’s. Antwerpen: Ludion, 2010.
Visser, Hripsime. Ed van der Elsken 55. New York: Phaidon Press, 2002.
".... Here again is that infallible instinct for body language. Van der Elsken clearly spotted this group because he found them beautiful; he undoubtedly called out to them since the are posing to a certain degree, distracted from their usual behavior for a moment, though thiw is less explicit than in his later, more 'directed' photographs." - Visser, Hripsime, " Ed van der Elsken 55". New York: Phaidon Press, 2002.
A group of people in front of the Cotton Club Amsterdam 1956.
'This was the time Surinamers and black American soldiers on leave started to visit the Cotton Club, a jazz club on the Nieuwmarkt' Ed van der Elsken, 'Once Upon A Time', p. 65
