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Ed Van der Elsken: Sweet life

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    Sweet life

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Ed van der Elsken's Sweet Life published in 1966 is considered one of the key works of Dutch photobook history. In 1960, armed with two magazine commissions and a stipend from Netherlands television, Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda set off on a fourteen month journey around the world. Six years after their return, he published his travelogue Sweet Life which exhibited a panoply of layout effects - double-page bleeds, crops, printed in deep gravure, and different cover designs for each of the six countries in which it was published. Books on Books #13 presents a study of this classic book with a contemporary essay by Frits Gierstberg.--Publisher.

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    New York: Errata Editions, 2012

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    • 1935004263
    • 9781935004257
    • 1935004255
    • 9781935004264

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    • Additional essays of "Sweet life in a crazy world" by Frits Gierstberg and "Making Sweet life" by Jeffrey Ladd.
    • Facsimile: Orginally published: Amsterdam : De Bezige Bij, 1966.

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