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First German (book club) edition, first and only printing, hardcover. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white, black-and-white pictorial endpapers, black embossed boards with illustrated dust jacket with red type in protective plastic wrapper. 208 pages, 153 images, 11.5 x 11.5 inches. Text and design by Ed van der Elsken. … Embarking on a fourteen-month world tour [was an] ambitious challenge [undertaken] in 1959 by the Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda. The resulting photographs would turn into one of the most epic Dutch photobooks ever produced, Sweet Life … Their travels would cover West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, the United States and Mexico. Van der Elsken found his stride photographing in the streets of each major city or backwater … Today, for historians and those lucky enough to see a copy firsthand, Sweet Life is admired and celebrated for its cinematic energy, raw style, and gritty in-your-face design reminiscent of another… Read More