Ed van der Elsken Trailers
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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. His first photo book Love on the left bank was published in 1956 and instantly made him world-famous.
Some twenty photo books followed. He also made several television films, mostly about subjects regarding his own life. Ed van der Elsken was born in Amsterdam in 1925. He lives and works in Paris from 1950 to 1954. In this period, he lives with Ata Kando and her 3 children. He moves back to Amsterdam and lives there from 1954 to 1971. He travels a lot for his work, for instance to Bagara, Central Africa in 1957, and makes a long world trip in 1959 and 1960 with Gerda van der Veen, his second wife.
Shortly after, their children Tinelou and Daan are born. During his many travels, Ed van der Elsken makes reports in colour for the monthly magazine Avenue.
From 1971, he lives in the countryside near Edam. In this period, he often travels to Japan and also works in Amsterdam. He is living with Anneke Hilhorst and they have a son named John. In 1988 he is diagnosed with cancer. He dies in 1990.
Most Popular Ed van der Elsken Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
01 January 1965
Rhythmic composition of moving photographs of cyclists in Amsterdam, ‘set’ to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
01 January 1961
In 1960, Utrecht University took over the Studio for Electronic Music from Philips. In this studio in Utrecht, composers and artists worked on their own compositions.
23 August 1960
Handen (Hands) is an experimental documentary film by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken.
01 January 2005
Poverty, Demolition and Waterlooplein 1962/1964
21 February 1963
The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard.
01 January 1972
Short film about the mare of Ed van der Elsken who is covered by a stallion from the neighborhood. The horse is getting thicker and brings a foal into the world.
01 January 1963
A self-portrait of the Van der Elsken family, with his heavily pregnant wife Gerda in the lead role. She is expecting their second child, and Van der Elsken portrays her in a kind of free cinema style in her everyday surroundings, in the living room of their house in Amsterdam’s Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood.
21 December 1965
BEPPIE is a moving and disarming portrait of an Amsterdam street urchin. Van der Keuken once described her as follows: 'She was ten years old and the joy of the Achtergracht, where I was living at the time.
01 January 1983
An entire summer, van der Elsken walked through Amsterdam an filmed in the same manner as he used to shoot his photos, strolling through the city centre and making contact with people that fascinated him.
01 January 1965
As part of the celebrations for 100 years of Amsterdam’s Vondelpark in 1965, the Vondelpark was transformed into a massive sculpture garden under the direction of Stedelijk Museum director Sandberg.
01 January 1961
An impression of schoolkids in Amsterdam: in the canal boat, in Artis Zoo at the monkeys and swimming in the canal.
01 January 1962
For the exhibition Dylaby, the museum’s director Willem Sandberg and artist Jean Tinguely transformed the Stedelijk into a huge labyrinth.
01 January 1972
A filmic portrait of the Australian visual artist Vali Myers, whom Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elksen got to know in post-war Paris.
01 January 1990
Famous Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken, suffering from prostate cancer, shares his thoughts predominantly on his illness, but also on his life and work.
01 January 1980
Famed Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken documents the natural world as well as the local people in and around his hometown of Edam, the Netherlands.
01 January 1967
In the seventies, Waterlooplein square and the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood faced a great deal of demolition in relation to the construction of Amsterdam’s new opera house, the ‘Stopera’, and the metro system.
01 January 1967
Report of the last market day on the old Waterlooplein in Amsterdam. Traders and visitors are interviewed and van der Elsken provides the commentary to the events.
01 January 1971
A collage of autobiography, reflections on previous work and the photographer in action. Van der Elsken tells us that he’s working on a photo book about life, from the cradle to the grave, about how people are: physical, sensuous, naked.
