Inside | Amsterdam: Exhibition - Amsterdam! Ed van der Elsken
- maaikeout
- Mar 26, 2014
- 1 min read
Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) - the 'enfant terrible' of Dutch photography - was a talented photographer and filmmaker who expressed his meetings with people in photos, photo books and films for more than 40 years. Strolling through cities such as Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Amsterdam or travelling through Africa and Japan, he preferably took photographs of striking individuals with character.
I'm very exited to see a new Ed van der Elsken exhibition coming up in Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Cityarchive). For he was the photographer that captured Amsterdam and its citicens like no one else. He saw it all, the decay, the growing, the dirt, the beauty, the nakedness, the rawness. As in every big city, people live on top of each other here. There are so many cultures and social classes. So much interaction between locals, tourists, travellers, office workers, builders, shopowners and all those others who meet on the streets of the city centre. And Van der Elsken was part of it, watched this city form, grow and change. He shot people moving around Amsterdam, in daily life activities as well as once in a lifetime happenings.
The exhibition at the Cityarchive will show his pictures made between 1947-1970. Girls with horn glasses, nozems, kids playing with trash, visitors of the Cotton Club, rioters, writers, all kinds of beautiful people.
6 June - 14 September
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Vijzelstraat 32
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