Muurtekening ‘Leve ik’
From the 1950s, Van der Elsken’s style became quirkier and he 
increasingly photographed himself and his family. Moreover, 
he became more comfortable portraying people on the street up 
close. He was a voyeur and yet also emphatically present in his 
work, both an outsider and his own subject. He would not have 
photographed the slogan ‘Leve ik’ (Long live me) written on 
a wall had he not somehow related to it.
Ed van der Elsken