Publisher/491

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"Love in Saint-Germain-des-Prés" by Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990), a leading Dutch photographer. This is the exhibition catalog published in conjunction with the eponymous photo exhibition held in Tokyo in 1986, based on Elsken's first photobook published in 1956. The original work, which depicts young people who gathered in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in postwar Paris as a love story centered on real people, is a masterpiece in the history of photobooks, blending documentary with narrative elements reminiscent of film and novels. This book is not merely a Japanese translation or reprint, but a unique work with revised photographic selection and composition, and includes contact sheets. The project involved Tatsuo Fukushima, an important critic and curator of postwar Japanese photography history, and the group "491," mainly composed of members from the All Japan Student Photography Federation, and includes texts by Eikoh Hosoe, Fukushima, and Elsken himself. In addition to explaining the creation process of this masterpiece, it is also an interesting document that conveys how Elsken was introduced and received in Japan in the 1980s.