Keine Experimente (Signed)

Dirk Alvermann
Keine Experimente (Signed)

Photographs: Dirk Alvermann

Publisher: Eulenspiegel Verlag

136 pages

Year: 1961

Comments: Hardcover, 20 x 14 cm. Includes a bookmark from the editor which has left a mark on the first pages (see photos). Text in German. Signed. In very good condition.

Keine Experimente opens with a full-page excerpt from the Yalta conference agreement of 1945 (which was further refined by the Potsdam agreement of August 1945). This is followed by a barrage of Alvermann’s full-bleed black and white images, taken between 1956 and 1961. He illustrates the first nine German Basic Laws, and ends this picture essay with the words: Es folgen die Artikel 10 bis 145 (to be followed by Articles 10 to 145). Sometimes the images are repeated in strong crops on black-bordered pages with one of the first nine German Basic Laws quoted next to it. This strong graphic approach sets the book apart from most other books designed around this time.