Ed van der elsken

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Since its inception over forty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Maintaining diverse and extensive holdings of photographic prints, the gallery includes such masters…

Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken relocated to Paris in 1950. There he found a bohemian group and began closely following and photographing their everyday movements, intertwining fiction and reality in a new genre of photography book. The book focuses on the Left Bank of Paris at th

Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken relocated to Paris in 1950. There he found a bohemian group and began closely following and photographing their everyday movements, intertwining fiction and reality in a new genre of photography book. The book focuses on the Left Bank of Paris at th

Ed van der Elsken is recognised as one of the leading street photographers of the 20th century

Ed Van der Elsken - Paris, c.1952 - Howard Greenberg Gallery

By Hayley Mars. In 1950, Dutch photographer Ed Van-der-Elsken hitchhiked to Paris and began work at Magnum’s photo-laboratory as a ‘darkroom slave.’ After just six months he’d tired of developing p…

Ed van der Elsken: "Love" & Other Stories, Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2018