Elsken, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. This is #37 of 50 copies signed by Ed van der Elsken. "Ratatouille Japonica" is a separate 35 page staple bound paperback tucked into the inside rear cover. Laid in is a photo designated "Tokyo 1981" signed in pencil on the rear with the additional notation "Prnted by E" in Ed van der Elsken hand. The glossy 8 x 10 photo is the woman on the front free end paper. A beautiful copy of this scarce limited edition. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Amsterdam, Landshoff, 1985. Small 8vo (15.1 x 10.6 cm). 92 pp.; numerous black-and-white photos. Original laminated pictorial paperbound. = An archetypal work by the Dutch photographer and cinematographer Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990). Signed and illustrated in ink on the title page, "1985 Ed van der Elsken", below a simple flower motif. "His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second World War into the nineteen-seventies in the realms of love, sex, art, music (particularly jazz), and alternative culture. He described his camera as 'infatuated', and said: 'I'm not a journalist, an objective reporter, I'm a man with likes and dislikes'." (Wikipedia). La Grande Parade was Edy de Wilde's farewell exhibition as director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1984. Highlights from the post-1940 painting were exhibited until mid-April, 1985. The exhibition was visited by around 400,000 people. There were masterpieces by such artists as Karel Appel (featured on the front cover of Van der Elsken's book), Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Jasper Johns, Asger Jorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Fernand Léger, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly and others. At this event, Van der Elsken acted as journalist, asking smart questions and noting remarkable quotes whilst photographing. Slight wear to front joint, otherwise an excellent, clean copy. Added: a second clean and unmarked copy, in also in near mint state.

[PU: Baarn, The World's Window, 1963], Baarn, The World's Window, 1963. 33 RPM 12 inch vinyl record in luxury cloth-backed sleeve (31 x 32 cms.), including an original color lithograph by Karel Appel, signed in the stone, (sometimes erroneously decribed as a pencil-signature), loosely inserted in portfolio, as issued. The record, with experimental music composed and performed by Appel is packed in a clothbacked sleeve which contains a 30 page book with over 30 (double-page) photographs in colour and black/white by Ed van der Elsken and a text in English by Jan Vrijman. The original lithograph comes in separate portfolio 37 x 30 cms. Extremely rare. All items in fine condition. Sprache: Deutsch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.