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LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Ed van der Elsken Liebe in Saint Germain des Pres (Love on the Left Bank) Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg, 1962. First German Edition. Octavo. Hardbound with brown paper-covered boards. Comes in original photographic dust jacket. Dust jacket is in Very Good condition, exhibiting three small edge tears, the largest being 1cm in length, to the bottom edge of the front panel, as well as a 1cm tear to the top edge of the back panel of the jacket. Additional light edgewear and edge creases are present on the jacket. The book itself is in Fine condition. Quite scarce. Between 1950 and 1954 Ed van der Elsken lived in Paris and photographing wayward young bohemians, and particularly Vali Myers. Van der Elsken later arranged the photographs z`into a (fictional) love story following the bohemian life of Ann. Due in no small measure to this book, which took the genre of the Dutch photonovel to a new level, Ed van der Elsken quickly became the best known of the Dutch photographers of the 1950s and 60s, and announced the presence in Europe of a stream-ofconsciousness photographer on a par with William Klein. This scarce first work represents an important and influential early example of the diarist photobook. (Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History) Ed van der Elsken Sweet Life De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1966. First Dutch Edition. Thick Quarto 11.5 x 11.5”. Hardbound in black cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Small tear to front jacket, else only mild rubbing on top and bottom edges of dust jacket near spine. Overall a Near Fine copy. 750 Although Sweet Life chronicles a journey, Van der Elsken’s magnum opus has more in common with William Klein’s New York than with The Americans. Like Klein, Van der Elsken designed the whole package himself, in an equally cinematic, improvisational, free-association way – there is no linear determinism in the narrative, though it does progress more-or-less logically from country to country. Like Klein, Van der Elsken brings into play a whole panoply of layout effects – double-page bleeds, crops, runing pictures together and so on – and it is an unprecedented book in that it had a different cover for each of the six countries in which it was published. Also like Klein’s book, Van der Elsken’s was a big hit in Japan. His work constituted a significant influence on the young Japanese photographers of the 1960’s, about to be hit by the iconoclasm of the provoke era. 950
LEADAPRON • 554 HUNTLEY DRIVE LOS ANGELES CA 90048 • 310 360 0554 • LEADAPRON.NET • BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Bruce Weber Shufly Little Bear Press & Robert Miller Gallery, 2000. First Edition. Quarto 11.75 x 9.5”. Hard bound in dark gray cloth, no dust jacket as issued. No blemishes outside of an ever so slightly cocked spine. A thoroughly Fine copy. SIGNED by Bruce Weber. A charming, abbreviated view of those transitional years between youth and manhood. In forty-eight rich duotones and color snapshots, Bruce Weber manages to convey a hint of the emotional turbulence, but ultimate happiness, of those pivotal years. From young churchgoers to wrestlers to cadets on the edge of maturity, Weber’s signature style unites all to create an illusion that is at once appealing and believable. 850
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