Source
Ed van der Elsken — Jeu de Paume, Paris (exhibition page, 2017)
Citation
Jeu de Paume. “Ed van der Elsken” exhibition page (June–September 2017). Jeu de Paume, Paris. Accessed 2026-05-09. https://www.jeudepaume.org/en/evenement/ed-van-der-elsken-2/
Tier justification
Tier 1: institutional / archival page from a major French photography institution (Jeu de Paume, Paris) for its 2017 monographic exhibition of Ed van der Elsken. The page is editorially produced by the institution’s curatorial staff and accompanies a Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam co-organized retrospective.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim quotations from the fetched HTML (2026-05-09):
- Headline: “Ed van der Elsken”
- Photo credit caption: “Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam”
- Opening biographical line: “Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) is a unique figure in Dutch 20th-century documentary cinema and photography. As a photographer, his preferred subject was the street, and in cities like Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong or Tokyo, he enjoyed…”
- The page identifies “Ed van der Elsken was fascinated by these proud figures, full of life and vitality.”
- The page subtitle includes the title of his best-known book: “Ed van der Elsken. Love on the Left Bank”
Notes
- Perspective: institutional / curatorial. The Jeu de Paume page co-credits the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, which holds the Van der Elsken estate archive — placing the page in the “estate-affiliated institution” tier of credibility.
- The page gives year-only resolution (1925 / 1990). The 10 March 1925 birth and 28 December 1990 death day-month tokens, and the Amsterdam birthplace token, carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-elsken-pointer.
- The page does NOT mention The Family of Man by name (verified 2026-05-09 by string-search; “Family of Man” returns 0 occurrences in the fetched HTML). The connection is anchored at the plate level via the MoMA Master Checklist (src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist, in repo) and at the curatorial-pathway level via the Wikipedia article (src-wikipedia-elsken-pointer), which records Steichen’s evening-meeting visit to Amsterdam where Van der Elsken brought “practically his entire oeuvre” for review.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-09 via
curl -fsSL https://www.jeudepaume.org/en/evenement/ed-van-der-elsken-2/(HTTP 200, 637,377 bytes).