Elsken, Ed van der (1925-1990). Two Photographs of a Mother with Child

(1) 'A mother with her starving child at the Dhaka station'. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1974, 24.2 x 30.3 cm, photographer's stamp "Film Photography TV", manuscript annotations, and a "Retour" stamp from the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs on verso. Under passe-partout. (2) 'Woman with child in her arms in the hospital'. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1974, 19.6 x 29.8 cm, photographer's stamp "Film Photography TV", manuscript annotations, and a "Retour" stamp from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on verso.

Both w. dam. to surface and one w. some tears around edges. (total 2) *The photographs are part of the series 'Armoede/Honger', taken for an assignment on global poverty by the Dutch women's magazine Margriet and Novib. in Bangladesh.