SIGNED; Dirk Alvermann - Klein Paris (VINTAGE SIGNATURE, MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2011

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Dirk Alvermann was a West-German photographer (born in Dusseldorf), who voluntarily moved to East Berlin, GDR, in 1966, who lived big parts of his life in East Germany and who published his first books in the GDR.

Dirk Alvermann is the maker of "Algerien" ("L'Algerie"), 1960, "Keine Experimente", 1961 und "Ich liebe dich", 1979 and was mentioned by Martin Parr in the "Photonews" and the "Aperture magazine" as probably the most important photographer and bookmaker coming from East-Germany.

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Steidl, Göttingen. 2011. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 182 x 244 mm. 112 pages. 108 photos. Photos: Dirk Alvermann. Essay by Thomas Wiegand. Text in German.

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"Dirk Alvermann was a German photographer, filmmaker, and writer. He began working with photography in 1956. During the period of reconstruction in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German economic miracle, however, there was hardly any room in West Germany for the socially critical, anti-colonialist, and peace-oriented perspective of his work. With the exception of a few left-leaning weekly newspapers such as Die Tat, Deutsche Volkszeitung, or Die Andere Zeitung, he published his photographs mainly in the GDR as well as in France, Algeria, England, Italy, and Poland. In rapid succession he produced photographic reportages on Spain (1957–62), Algeria (1958–60), Albania (1962), West Germany (1962–65), Italy (1964), and England (1965).
The work of these years is documented above all in the photo books Algerien–L’Algerie (1960) and Keine Experimente – Bilder zum Grundgesetz (1961). A planned photo book on Spain, firmly scheduled for publication by Edition Leipzig in 1963, was blocked from appearing by the Spanish Communist Party in exile. Additional works included the documentary films Algerische Partisanen (1962) and his camera work on Peter Nestler’s Arbeiterclub in Sheffield (broadcast title: Menschen in Sheffield) in 1965. From 1962 to 1965 Alvermann worked as a semi-staff contributor for NBI, but also published in Quick, Magnum, and Das Magazin.
After extended and repeated stays in Algeria and Spain, Alvermann moved to West Berlin in 1959 and finally to East Berlin (GDR) in 1966. In 1969 his photographic documentation Wolfgang Heinz inszeniert Gorkis Feinde was published there, as well as, in the same year, the narrative photo book on the dockworkers in the Rostock overseas port, Eine Handvoll Glück. The following year came the city portrait Rostock, and in 1979 the almost legendary photo book Ich liebe Dich. The project—pursued over many years (1962–77)—of a photo volume on the work and lives of Polish folk artists (woodcarvers and painters), undertaken jointly with Warsaw ARD correspondent Ludwig Zimmerer, was never realized.
Between 1972 and 1976 Alvermann worked as a documentary film director for GDR television’s “Kulturmagazin.” During the dissolution of GDR television at the time of German reunification, nearly all of the films he had directed there were discarded (and remain lost to this day).
From the 1960s onward, Alvermann increasingly devoted himself to writing and in 1977 published the partly autobiographical collection of stories Ende eines Märchens, and in 1983 the children’s book Zuckerwatte und Riesenrad. In 1979 his best-known photo book besides the Algeria volume, Ich liebe Dich, appeared as a provisional summation of his photographic work. A year later he was admitted to the GDR Writers’ Union and elected to the district executive committee as a representative of young authors. As its delegate, he traveled the following year with Rainer Kerndl to a congress of the Palestinian Writers’ Association in Beirut, which, however, did not take place due to the extremely escalating military tensions there at the time. It was in this context that his last cohesive photographic works were created in Palestinian refugee camps. In 1982 Alvermann left the district executive committee at his own request, moved to the (then) district of Schwerin, and joined an Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG), an experience he later recounted literarily in Crivitzer Chronik (1999).
In 1991 Alvermann took a position as archivist at the Rehna municipal archive. The following year he was among the founders of the cultural initiative Maurine-Radegast e. V., became its first chairman, and published several local-history works on its behalf, including writings of the Low German poet Rudolf Hartmann, murdered in a concentration camp (Ick seig allerhand Gesichter), investigations by local chroniclers Klaus Bollensdorf (Rehnaer Miniaturen) and Karl-Heinz Molkenthin (Demerner Dorfgeschichten, Land an der Maurine), postwar photographs by photojournalist Willy Seeger (Gadebuscher Novelle), and two anthologies of short stories by contemporary northern German writers (Flaschenpost aus Nordost, Flaschenpost 2005).
In 2006 and 2008 he presented with the photo books Zwischen den Zeiten – Rhapsodie in Schwarzweiß and dacapo a retrospective of his work created between 1956 and 1982. In 2011 the photo books Klein Paris, featuring postwar impressions of his birthplace Düsseldorf, were published, along with a facsimile reprint and new editions in French, English, and German of the now-legendary Algeria book on the liberation struggle of what remained a French colony until 1962. Alvermann’s book-making efforts continued in 2012 with Streiflichter 1956–65, a photo volume of photographic short narratives about Warsaw, Tirana, Naples, Peñíscola, and Sheffield.
Dirk Alvermann was the younger brother of painter, graphic artist, and object artist Hans-Peter Alvermann (1931–2006). In September 2013, Dirk Alvermann passed away in Carlow, in the village of Neschow, just under two months before his 76th birthday. He was survived by his sons Dirk Alvermann (1965–2023) and Moritz P. Alvermann, and his daughter Nadja Alvermann.
(Wikipedia)