Ed van der Elsken
Man and machine, Nigeria, 1959
silver gelatin print, analogue barite print on Ilford neutral tone paper
Paper: 30 x 40 cm
Edition of 20
€ 1250
'Here is a change for you. Africa today. Mechanization, industrialization. An african and a machine - and what a machine!. The new magic. The Magician - or the magician's apprentice...
"Here is a change for you. Africa today. Mechanization, industrialization. An african and a machine - and what a machine!. The new magic. The Magician - or the magician's apprentice - is allowed to take the controls, to see what he can do with the contraption, what he can make it do. What will it do to him?" From: Ed van der Elsken, 'Sweet Life', Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij 1966
'Ed van der Elsken spent thirteen months traveling round the world with his wife Gerda. The photographs during this trip were published under the title Sweet life.' Nigeria 1959. Elsken, Ed van der. Once Upon a Time. Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1992.
'Ed van der Elsken spent thirteen months traveling round the world with his wife Gerda. The photographs during this trip were published under the title Sweet life.' Nigeria 1959. Elsken, Ed van der. Once Upon a Time. Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1992.
Exhibitions
2019 Ed van der Elsken, 'Sweet Life', Annet Gelink gallery, Amsterdam
Literature
Brödbeck, A., Lütgens, A. Ed van der Elsken: Fotografie + Film 1949-1990.[exh.cat]. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2000.
Elsken, Ed van der. Sweet Life, Amsterdam: de Bezige Bij, 1966.
Elsken, Ed van der. Once Upon a Time. Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1992.
Elsken, Ed van der., et al. Ed Van Der Elsken: Sweet Life. Errata Editions, 2012.