{"product_id":"ed-van-der-elsken-jazz-2007","title":"Ed van der Elsken - Jazz (facsimile, 2007)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"698\"\u003eThis photobook by Ed van der Elsken, reprinted in 2007 from the original 1959 Dutch edition, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it transposes the urgency and sensuality of live jazz into photographic form, capturing an era when the music pulsed through the Left Bank and Amsterdam clubs like a fever. Made between 1950 and 1954, at a time when van der Elsken was immersed in the beat culture of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, these images operate like visual riffs—fragments of light, gesture and sweat, syncopated and rhythmic, echoing the improvisations of the very musicians they depict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"700\" data-end=\"1345\"\u003eThis is not a book \u003cem data-start=\"719\" data-end=\"726\"\u003eabout\u003c\/em\u003e jazz, it \u003cem data-start=\"736\" data-end=\"740\"\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e jazz. Shot with a Leica and laid out with an almost cinematic tempo, the spreads riff through combinations of two, four, six images per page—syncopated like keys on a trumpet, rising in emotional intensity with visual phrasing that mirrors musical structure. Here are Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and more—seen not as icons, but as part of a living, surging soundscape. Originally published in Amsterdam by De Bezige Bij, this facsimile edition retains its radical layout and expressive grain, functioning not as a document but as the echo of a lived night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1347\" data-end=\"1727\"\u003eThe cover, in deep contrast black and white, features Armstrong mid-note—face clenched, trumpet up—announcing the intensity within. Van der Elsken, enfant terrible of Dutch street photography and author of \u003cem data-start=\"1553\" data-end=\"1576\"\u003eLove on the Left Bank\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1593\"\u003eSweet Life\u003c\/em\u003e, offers here a photographic love letter not just to jazz, but to performance, energy, and the beauty of improvisation caught in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1729\" data-end=\"2145\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1729\" data-end=\"1748\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1748\" data-end=\"1751\"\u003eTitle: Jazz\u003cbr data-start=\"1762\" data-end=\"1765\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Ed van der Elsken\u003cbr data-start=\"1799\" data-end=\"1802\"\u003eDate: 2007 (facsimile of 1959 edition)\u003cbr data-start=\"1840\" data-end=\"1843\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset, from original rotogravure design\u003cbr data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"1915\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover photobook\u003cbr data-start=\"1954\" data-end=\"1957\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eDimensions: approx. 22.5 × 22.5 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1991\" data-end=\"1994\"\u003eLanguage: French (intro), Dutch (colophon)\u003cbr data-start=\"2036\" data-end=\"2039\"\u003ePages: Unpaginated\u003cbr data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2060\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Steidl \/ De Bezige Bij\u003cbr data-start=\"2102\" data-end=\"2105\"\u003eISBN: 978-3-86521-443-0\u003cbr data-start=\"2128\" data-end=\"2131\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758388871506,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/MAISONSCLOSES_6ff418df-3f2e-4331-a0bd-6329134657f1.jpg?v=1768300274","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/en-it\/products\/ed-van-der-elsken-jazz-2007","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}