La Douceur de Vivre / Sweet Life (French edition).
Paris: Editions Cercle D'Art (1968). First French Edition. Large square quarto. Text in French, translated by Elaine Brau. Van der Elsken's tour de force photo travelogue, a series of images shot around the world as Van der Elsken and his wife traveled by freighter. One of the true avant garde masterpieces of the sixties, a wild mixture of grainy, sublime, and intensely evocative pictures that conjures up the layouts of William Klein and would seem to segue into the Provoke movement of Japanese photography. (Parr, v1, 254-255; Auer 461). Bottom corners gently bumped, else close to fine in a sharp, better than near fine jacket.
Item #31260
Price: $650.00
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