OT: Love On The Left Bank

[Troll]

Apparently reissued. Can anyone comment on it? Is it worth buying for the

photography? Is it too dated to be interesting?

[frederick_muller]

Love on the Left Bank won't ever be dated.

[Troll]

I like the way you put that, Fredrick.

<p> For those not familiar with book, it's by the late Dutch Leica photographer and filmmaker, Ed Van der Elsken.

[jim_watts]

Bill,

This is a wonderful and important book. Not dated, as it probably sets a precedent for some of the semi fictional conceptual works by Cindy Sherman etc, but IMHO much better photography that captures the feel of Paris in the mid 50's, the book was published in 1956.

 

I did have a first edition (now worth a small fortune) , but gave it to a good friend as a 50th birthday present before the reprint was published as it was always his favourite book and his copy had been stolen. The reprint was pubished in 1999 in the UK by Dewi Lewis and is virtually identical (there are a few minor differences)and if anything is slightly better printed. I think about 25 GBP in the U.K. Buy without hesitation. I'm hoping someone is going to reprint Ed Van Der Elskens "The Sweet Life" another great book.

 

Jim Watts

[alun]

Buy without hesitation, along with HONG KONG: AS IT WAS from the same publisher.

 

--alun

[hans_berkhout]

Still very good, raw straight photography.

 

Whatever happened to photographer Ata Kando?, she played an important role in his life at that time.