Flip Bool & Sandra Felten - Nico Jesse [1911-1976]

Flip Bool & Sandra Felten - Nico Jesse [1911-1976] - Amsterdam - Focus Publishing - 2003 - 1st edition - 200 pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 25 x 33 cm. - Design: Barbara Dijkhuis & Gerard Hadders

Condition: Excellent.

Standard monograph by the Dutch general practitioner / photographer Nico Jesse (1911-1976), including an in memoriam by Willem Frederik Hermans. Illustrated with reproductions in black and white and colour. With bibliography and list of sources. Text in Dutch and English. Hardcover edition. Series Monografieën van Nederlandse Fotografen No. 11.

With images of covers and selections from the contents of Jesse's photobooks (including 'Women of Paris' (1954); 'Mensen in Londen'; 'Menschen in Berlin' en 'Parijs - met voorwoord door Jean Cocteau' (1962), and from his corporate photo books such as 'Mensen van Menko' and 'N.V. Coq' (both from 1956).

¶ Jesse moved remarkably naturally among all levels of society. The writer W.F. Hermans, who was his photographic assistant in 1957, wrote: "He approached his models as if they had called him." Jesse's friend Paul Citroen said about him: "Nico Jesse grabs life by the nose with the camera and the result is: LIFE." -Wikipedia.