The Walter Benjamin and Albert S. Project

The Walter Benjamin and Albert S. Project, by Maurice Bogaert, is a book about the parallel lives of Walter Benjamin and Albert Speer, and the author’s quest to bring their histories together. The book’s concept is a graphic novel and thus the perfect book to read on a train. Image sequences are placed as a cinematographic experience in that images of doors that are open indicate a new space of the architecture’s story. A sequence of mountains shows that the story is going to another place. A repetitive image of a telephone that brings a conversation alive. On the cover a door is open, to metaphorically pull the readers into the cinematographic experience. The light of the story is printed, in two layers of silver ink on black paper. 

Year	2020
Client	Maurice Bogaert
Location	Amsterdam, NL
Publisher	Jap Sam Books
Printer	robstolk