
Girl Surrounded by Students in Saint-Germain-Des-Pres
Ed van Der ElskenWW-1950-112418
1950·Gelatin silver print·Image/paper: 29.5 × 33.4 cm (11 5/8 × 13 3/16 in.); Mount: 45.8 × 55.8 cm (18 1/16 × 22 in.)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1950
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 29.5 × 33.4 cm (11 5/8 × 13 3/16 in.); Mount: 45.8 × 55.8 cm (18 1/16 × 22 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Ed van Der Elsken
Artist

Ed van Der Elsken
Photography
Ed van der Elsken was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker who documented postwar European urban life with an unflinching eye for street encounter and social texture. Working primarily in black and white, he captured the energy of Amsterdam and Paris in the 1950s, creating intimate, candid portraits that refused sentimentality. His photographs and films established him as a key figure in European humanist photography.
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- Ed van Der Elsken
- Year
- 1950
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 29.5 × 33.4 cm (11 5/8 × 13 3/16 in.); Mount: 45.8 × 55.8 cm (18 1/16 × 22 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1950-112418
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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