Het rijke onvermogen: Een fotoreportage over West-Duitsland

Title: Het rijke onvermogen: Een fotoreportage over West-Duitsland

Photographer(s): Oscar van Alphen

Writer(s): Oscar van Alphen

Designer(s): Kees Nieuwenhuijzen, Tiny Laarakker

Publisher(s): Van Gennep, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Year: 1978

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Language(s): Dutch

Pages: 96

Size: 24.5 x 16.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Edition:

Print : Printed by Drukkerij C Haasbeek, Amsterdam

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: West Germany, 1959-1977

ISBN: 978-9060123744

Oscar van Alphen (pseudonym for Kees Nieuwenhuizen) started taking photographs in the Second half of the 1950s in what is known as the 'humanist' tradition - reportage photography with a focus on people and the vicissitudes of human existence. Following the success of his book "Kinderen in de grote stad" (Children in the Big City) 1958, in the 1960s van Alphen, who was self-taught, produced several books of photographs and carried out assignments for newspapers and periodicals. He was admitted to the GKf and gradually became more openly politically engaged. In 1982 he was the first Dutch photographer to produce a book on the Palestine problem.

It couldn't be more significant than the times the first image that I propose from this book, while some demonstrates are going to manifest an elderly couple is preparing a bench and looking at their garden.