SWEET LIFE

Ed van der Elsken
SWEET LIFE
Photographs: Ed van der Elsken
Text: Ed van der Elsken
Publisher: Tokyo Photographic School
208 pages
Pictures: 153
Year: 1968
Comments: Hardcover under illustrated slipcase; 305 x 305 mm. Japanese edition, 1968. Text in Japanese. Gravure printing. . Great condition. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1, p.254-255. Very scarce and collectible.
In 1960, armed with two magazine commissions and a stipend from Netherlands television, Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) and his wife Gerda set off on a fourteen-month journey around the world, from West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan to the United States and Mexico. Six years after their return, he published his travelogue Sweet Life (named after a little tramp steamer in the Philippines): a sprawling, exuberant chronicle of their journey and his encounters with a range of people in the streets, from joyous lovers to destitute down-and-outs. The book itself 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."























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