Sweet Life curations Hatje Cantz Verlag

Hatje Cantz Verlag

Peter WELLER

I used to spend hours gazing out of the window and watching the activity on the street below

The negatives were scanned by the German artist

Sweet Life curations Hatje Cantz Verlag154 black & white photos of a trip around the world made by the Dutch photographer and his wife Gerda VAN DER VEEN in 1959 and 1960. Also designed by VAN DER ELSKEN. Gravure printing. Text by Ed van der ELSKEN + circular typographical poem by the German artist Ferdinand KRIWET (1942 2018). Seven different editions of this book have been made in different countries between 1966 and 1968. Lit.: Boom Suermondt, Between the covers, pp. 111 & 138, Parr