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Ed van der Elsken
Dutch photographer
Eduardvan der Elsken (10 March 1925 – 28 December 1990) was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker.
His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist[1] spanning the period of the Second World War into the 1970s in the realms of love, sex, art, music (particularly jazz), and alternative culture.
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He described his camera as 'infatuated', and said: "I'm not a journalist, an objective reporter, I'm a man with likes and dislikes".[2] His style is subjective and emphases the seer over the seen; a photographic equivalent of first-person speech.[3]
Early life
Ed van der Elsken was born on 10 March 1925 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In 1937, wanting to become a sculptor, he learned stone-cutting at Amsterdam's Van Tetterode Steenhouwerij. After completing preliminary studies at the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs, the predecessor of the Rietveld Academy (dir.
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