ALVERMANN, Dirk - Algeria

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Background information

"Dirk ALVERMANN was a rebellious young man when, in the 1950s, excited by the Algerian people's struggle for freedom, he made his way from Tunisia with the Algerian Liberation Army to the Eastern Algerian war zone to document the events there photographically. Back in West Germany, he wanted to make his pictures accessible to as many people as possible, and the format of the rowohlts-rotationsromane, published since 1950, was ideal for this.  However, a promise of publication from Rowohlt Verlag was withdrawn. The Algerian war and the struggle of the Algerian Liberation Front (FLN) was too sensitive a topic for the 'Adenauer Republic', which had taken up the cause of Franco-German reconciliation. The book 'Algerien/Algeria' was finally published in 1960 by the East Berlin publishing house Rütten & Loening, but not in the paperback edition he wanted, but as a hardcover.

Content

This new edition of the volume 'Algeria' by Dirk ALVERMANN goes back to the original idea of the photographer: The book is designed in the traditional rororo format, has the desired cardboard binding and corresponds in content to the first draft in every detail. Political contemporary documents, quotations from French military sources, from pamphlets, newspapers and magazines accompanied the photographs. This book is as a facsimile edition also part of the 'Protest Box' published by Martin Parr.

About German photographer, Dirk ALVERMANN (1937-2013)

Photo books by Dirk ALVERMANN