A Dutch Street Photographer Who Pursued Darker Truths
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A retrospective of Ed van der Elsken at the Jeu de Paume in Paris examines his embrace of youth culture and his travels around the world.
Ed van der Elsken, “Vali Myers (Ann), Roberto Inigez-Morelosy (Manuel) and Géraldine Krongold (Geri), Paris” (1950) (courtesy Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) PARIS — The St-Germain-des-Prés area has always been chic. Well-heeled locals slip into its glossy storefronts and leaf through the latest fiction at its many bookstores, and they and tourists alike continue to flock to the legendary Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, which count Sartre, Beauvoir, and Hemingway among their former patrons. But the neighborhood has belonged to ot
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