Ed van der Elsken

One of my favorite Dutch Photographers.

I am taking the liberty to link to the wiki page (in English) for more information.

The Rijksmuseum has the complete archive of this photographer.

His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist^[1] spanning the period of the Second World War into the nineteen-seventies in the realms of love, sex, art, music (particularly jazz), and alternative culture. He described his camera as 'infatuated', and said: "I'm not a journalist, an objective reporter, I'm a man with likes and dislikes".^[2] His style is subjective and emphases the seer over the seen; a photographic equivalent of first-person speech.^[3]