The intimate images of Ed van der Elsken: Exhibition at Jeu de Paume, Paris

Runs through September 24, 2017.
At Jeu de Paume, Paris.

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Ed van der Elsken, Retrospective-Photography Exhibition in Paris - Jeu de Paume, Paris | Urban Mishmash
Ed van der Elsken, Pierre Feuillette (Jean-Michel) and Paulette Vielhomme (Claudine) kissing at café Chez Moineau, Rue du Four, Paris, 1953. Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Ed van der Elsken, Retrospective-Photography Exhibition in Paris - Jeu de Paume, Paris | Urban Mishmash
Ed van der Elsken, Pierre Feuillette (Jean-Michel) and Paulette Vielhomme (Claudine) kissing at café Chez Moineau, Rue du Four, Paris, 1953. Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Over four decades, Dutch post-war photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) photographed the bohemian youth of Paris in the fifties, sought out the ‘authentic’ men and women in his native Amsterdam and in the streets of Tokyo and documented the tribal rituals and magical figures in the remote villages of Central Africa. The resulting images and films are an intimate, poetic ode to the countercultures, to the lost generations and to those on the fringes of society.

Ed van der Elsken, Retrospective-Photography Exhibition in Paris - Jeu de Paume, Paris | Urban Mishmash
Ed van der Elsken, Vali Myers (Ann), Roberto Inigez-Morelosy (Manuel) and Geraldine Krongold (Geri), Paris, 1950. Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Ed van der Elsken retrospective: Exhibition at Jeu de Paume, Paris

Ed van der Elsken, Retrospective-Photography Exhibition in Paris - Jeu de Paume, Paris | Urban Mishmash
Ed van der Elsken, Jean-Michel Mension (Pierre) and Auguste Hommel (Benny), Paris, 1953. Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam © Ed van der Elsken / Ed van der Elsken Estate

Seventeen years after his death, Jeu De Paume, Paris is showing a comprehensive retrospective of Ed van der Elsken’s diverse body of work. The exhibition ‘Ed van der Elsken – Camera in Love’ features more than 150 original prints, later colour prints, film excerpts and slideshows, montages and book dummies, contact sheets and other archival documentation taken over four decades.

Ed van der Elsken, Retrospective-Photography Exhibition in Paris - Jeu de Paume, Paris | Urban Mishmash
Ed van der Elsken, Vali Myers (Ann) in front of her mirror, Paris, 1953. Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

The main focus of the exhibition is on the photographs that Ed van der Elsken made in Paris, Amsterdam and Tokyo, during his travels in Africa and while on a world tour with his wide in the 1960s. Photographs from his 1956 book Love on the Left Bank, contact sheets, book dummies, earlier publications and filmed memories of the protagonist Vali Myers are among the highlights of the show. His other remarkable books, including Bagara, Jazz and Sweet Life offer wonderful insights into his conscious and subjective approach to photography.

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Van der Elsken’s films, excerpts of which are on show at the Jeu de Paume exhibition, are realistic and documentary in nature, often experimental in form and characterised by the presence of the filmmaker himself. The exhibition also includes his slide shows, particularly Eye Love You and Tokyo Symphony, a posthumously completed ode to the city he loved and visited many times.

Ed van der Elsken, Retrospective-Photography Exhibition in Paris - Jeu de Paume, Paris | Urban Mishmash
Ed van der Elsken, Refugee girl, Hong Kong, 1959-1960. Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam © Ed van der Elsken / Special Collections Department of Leiden University.

The exhibition ‘Ed van der Elsken – Camera in Love‘ was previously on view at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and after Jeu de Paume in Paris, will move to the Fundación Mapfre in Madrid in 2018.

Ed van der Elsken, Retrospective-Photography Exhibition in Paris - Jeu de Paume, Paris | Urban Mishmash
Ed van der Elsken, Girl in metro, Tokyo, 1981. Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

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June 13, 2017 to September 24, 2017
At Jeu de Paume
Ed van der Elsken: Camera in Love

Ed van der Elsken: Camera in Love

Jeu de Paume, Paris presents a comprehensive exhibition of work by Dutch post-war photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken (1950-1990). The exhibition was earlier on show at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and will travel to Fundació Mapfre, Madrid in 2018. The retrospective features a large selection of Ed van der Elsken’s varied work in film, photography and slideshows, including his iconic images of the bohemian youth in Paris from the fifties, his photographic and cinematic documentation of everyday life in the streets of Amsterdam and Tokyo from 1960-onwards, photographs from his travels in Africa as well as his books, excerpts from his films and slide shows, particularly Eye Love You and posthumously completed Tokyo Symphony.

Jeu de Paume

1, place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
 

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