Ed van der Elsken
Beethovenstraat II, 1967
Lambda print
Paper: 40 x 60 cm
Edition 4/12 printed by in 2015
Copyright The Artist
'Great, beautiful girls shop or office girls or something in their lunch break. In the Beethovenstraat of all places, in Amsterdam. I think 1966. Is that right with these miniskirts?...
"Great, beautiful girls shop or office girls or something in their lunch break. In the Beethovenstraat of all places, in Amsterdam. I think 1966. Is that right with these miniskirts?
"I did that with a long lens, my faithful old Tamron 400mm F 6.9, a rickety lens that I have purchased for $ 60 in Los Angeles in 1961, where I took thousands of pictures with it too, which a thousand good and hundreds of spectacular ones, roughly estimated. If I have five hundred of them sold at 200, -. guilders a piece, then he raise money this Ektachrome HS, 1/500th F 6.9."
"I did that with a long lens, my faithful old Tamron 400mm F 6.9, a rickety lens that I have purchased for $ 60 in Los Angeles in 1961, where I took thousands of pictures with it too, which a thousand good and hundreds of spectacular ones, roughly estimated. If I have five hundred of them sold at 200, -. guilders a piece, then he raise money this Ektachrome HS, 1/500th F 6.9."
Literature
"Hallo!", 1978, Unieboek/ Van Halkema & Warendorf, Bussum