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Feest : Ed van der Elsken / compiled by Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom.

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Feest : Ed van der Elsken / compiled by Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom.
Publication
  • Amsterdam : Rijksmuseum, [2020]
  • ©2020

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  • Boom, Mattie,
  • Elsken, Ed van der.
  • Rooseboom, Hans,
Description
223 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 18 cm
Summary
Around 1960, Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) put together a photobook on the theme of feest (feast). Drawing from both old and new work, he produced a design that is a sequence of festive occasions: fun, celebration, dancing, music, fairs, carnivals, excitement and euphoria, but also drunkenness and exhaustion in the wee hours. He combined the individual photographs into sparkling and rhythmical pairings, so that a genuine sense of joy emanates from the pages. At the time, for reasons unknown, the design was left on the shelf. The design for feest was one of the great surprises in Van der Elsken?s legacy, which was acquired by the Rijksmuseum and the Nederlands Fotomuseum in 2019. Now, sixty years after the photographer worked on the design with scissors and tape, this lively book is being published after all, in the format he had in mind.
Uniform Title
Feest. English.
Subject
  • Black-and-white photography > Europe
  • Elsken, Ed van der
  • Festivals > Europe > Pictorial works
Note
  • "The book he never published"--Strip on the cover.
ISBN
  • 9789462086074
  • 9462086079
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries