Watersides, waves and wells—water has been a constant in Esser’s photographic work. His latest series presents digitally enlarged color postcards from the 1900s showing bathers and boats, rocks and froth. Fusing old-time aesthetics and modern technologies

Elger Esser presents a series of 10 stunning photographs of the grandiose landscape between Cap Antifer and Étretat on the French Channel coast, complemented by the 1877 correspondence between Flaubert and Maupassant.

Elger Esser suffuses his latest photographs, mainly landscapes, with the air of their own, imagined mode of time, placing them somewhere between the obvious present and an imaginary past.

Recalling early 19th century romanticism, Elger Esser’s collection of his famous photographic landscapes in France, Italy and Scotland ‘Vedutas and Landscapes’, make a book of special visual poetry.

A treasure trove for bibliophiles, this book showcases the enchanting photographs taken by Becher student Elger Esser during a trip to Italy. Documentary-style photos point out cross-connections between the texts written by both father and son.