Algerien

Dirk Alvermann
Algerien

Photographs: Dirk Alvermann

Publisher: Rütten & Loening

224 pages

Pictures: 161

Year: 1960

Comments: Hardcover, 180 x 110 mm. First edition, 1960. Black & white photographs. Gravure printing. Text in german. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.3, p.190/191. Kept in very good condition mostly. Binding a little fragile. Reproductions very well preserved. Gift inscription in the first page (see picture)

When he went to Algeria in the 1950s Dirk Alvermann was only eighteen, a rebellious West German teenager thrilled by the struggle for freedom by the Algerian people against French colonial rule. Together with a unit of the Algerian liberation army, he found a way to cross the hermetically sealed border from Tunisia into the Eastern Algerian war zone, determined to keep a photographic record of the events unfolding there. After his return to West Germany he set about planning the publication of his work in the most accessible form available.The book should go from hand to hand like a political manifesto.