{"id":7205,"date":"2021-08-22T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:58:26","slug":"love-on-the-left-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/love-on-the-left-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVE ON THE LEFT BANK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Think of it as the illustrated version of Kerouac&#8217;s &#8220;On the Road&#8221;<\/span> This photography book focuses on the left bank of Paris at a time when it was the center of creative ferment and the home of the artists, writers and aesthetes who would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. With its unconventional, gritty, snapshot-like technique the work was acclaimed as expanding the boundaries of documentary photography and became instrumental in the development of modern street photography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> First edition of the Dutch photographer Van der Elsken&#8217;s first photo book. 103 pages of finely screened halftones. Structured like a documentary photo-novel about the young people who spent their days and nights in &#8216;existentialist&#8217; jazz cellars and in the hotels and caf\u00e9s of Paris. Large chips to dust jacket, otherwise good. Scarce!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 20963<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7209\" title=\"love-on-the-left-bank\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/love-on-the-left-bank.jpg\" alt=\"love-on-the-left-bank\" width=\"247\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/love-on-the-left-bank.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/love-on-the-left-bank-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Love On The Left Bank<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>Van der Elsken, Ed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of it as the illustrated version of Kerouac&#8217;s &#8220;On the Road&#8221; This photography book focuses on the left bank of Paris at a time when it was the center of creative ferment and the home of the artists, writers and aesthetes who would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. With its unconventional, gritty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}