Love on the Left Bank — Ed van der Elsken (2011)
This facsimile of Ed van der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank resurrects one of the most cinematic and mythic photo-narratives of postwar Europe. First published in 1956, the book fuses photojournalism, pulp fiction, and romantic myth in a noir-styled portrait of bohemian life in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Structured as a semi-fictional diary, it follows the story of Ann, a drifting dancer loosely based on real-life muse Vali Myers, moving through cafés, cellars, and beds with opiated languor and defiance.
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Title: Love on the Left Bank
Artist / Author: Ed van der Elsken (2011)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781899235223
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