Dirk Leyman

Hardcover | 19.41 x 2.49 x 25.96 cm | 240 pp

Luster | 2021 | 9789460581656

Text in English and Dutch

Europe Express takes you on a journey from the Twenties to the Eighties of the twentieth century. A Grand Tour through a continent full of contrasts: from St. Mark's in Venice to bustling Berlin. From the Grand Hotels in luxurious Swiss ski resorts to the coasts of Spain and the mundane Côte d'Azur to the utopian, clinical world behind the Iron Curtain.

Dirk Leyman's colourful collection of leporellos or concertinas, travel brochures and postcard booklets brings the heyday of carefree travel back to life. These vintage concertinas often are scintillating examples of photographic and typographic skill -  deliciously naive and at times bordering on kitsch, like testimonials of a dream gone by. Europe Express is a breath-taking trip down memory lane, which will please the armchair traveller, the globetrotter, the photo fan and the typo geek.