#elsken

shout out to Witts for taking whatever these were

You have lost the day. You have lost faith in the day, in the first and the last, in the new which exists in each day, which exists in every beginning and end. A new day. It is there, but you cannot see it, your day resembles other days, it is because you are already dead. Something is dead in you. When did it die, when did you die, was it when love ended? One cannot live without love. And still you live, a half-life, an almost-life, a dead-life is what you are living.

Jan Meijer / Jurriaan Schrofer/ Ed van der Elsken

Vali Myers (1930-2003)

Sixties Magazine TWEN/TABOE with Ed van der Elsken

This is the title of a publication which is since a few weeks available at http://www.ftn-books.com. Inspired by the Ed van der Elsken exhibition at the Nederlands Fotomuseum which recently closed, i was looking for publications that were special and depicted the era of Sixties and early Seventies. This is one of the first of i hope many discoveries. “Vrouwen van Amsterdam” was published by Fototribune in 1970 and contains photographs of Amsterdam Women by the vey best . Ed van der Elsken, Cor Jaring, Koen Wessing and Claud van Heye. These are just a few names who had their input in this great publication. Typical Late Sixties photography, the age of Love & Peace depicted by great dutch photographers.

A just reason to devote another blog to Ed van der Elsken. Van der Elsken is without a doubt one of our greatest photographers from last century, but what makes vande r Elsken speciasl for me personally is that the photographs he made are the scenes and events i remember from my youth. Artistically they are among the very best, but emotionally there is an extra quality for me personally. The exhibitions showing a selection of his best color photography is now on show at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam ( https://www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl) and is very well worth visiting. In the cellar there is an extra asset to this exhibition….. a 15 minute slideshow which is among the very best and informative slide shows i have ever seen. The exhibition is on view until the 6th of October 2019.