As well as space for relatively unknown and never before published photos, there is also attention for the restoration of the 42,000 slides carried out by the Nederlands Fotomuseum between 20. It follows his development as a ‘colour photographer’ and places his colour photography in an (art) historical context. This is the first comprehensive overview of Van der Elsken’s works in colour. In the late sixties he even switched almost completely over to colour for several audio-visual pieces and in his travel reports for the weekly publication Revu and the monthly Avenue. His most important books in colour are EYE LOVE YOU (1977), Hallo! A new Ed van der Elsken (1978) and Adventures on the land (1980). The most famous of all of Stone’s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Goghbrilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. He began this in the early fifties during his stay in Paris. Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone’s Lust for Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. For a significant part of his working life, however, he worked in colour. Photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) gained global fame with his black-and-white photography. This achievement will be celebrated with the retrospective exhibition Lust for Life | Ed van der Elsken in colour and a comprehensive publication about his works in colour. As such, the colour works of one of the most influential Dutch photographers has been safeguarded for the future. A more resilient earth 5.The Nederlands Fotomuseum manages the complete archive of Ed van der Elsken’s negatives and slides and has recently successfully completed the enormous project of restoring 42,000 colour slides by Van der Elsken.

'I discovered painting when I no longer had teeth or breath' Book Eight - Auvers 1. 'In existing society, the painter is but a broken vessel' Book Seven - St. Southward, ever southward, to the sun! Book Six - Arles 1. 'Why should anyone want to be a count when he can be a painter?' 4.

'It's loving that's important, not being loved' 5. L'art, c'est un combat Book Four - Nuenen 1. There are some cities in which a man is forever ill-fated Book Three - The Hague 1. The old mill at Ryswyk Book Two - Etten 1.

Ramsgate and Isleworth Book One - The Borinage 1. 'Why, you're nothing but a country boor!' 7.

A lust for life book