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In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape.
In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape.
In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape.
In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape.
In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape.
In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape.
In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape.

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GALJAARD, David.

Concresco.

[N.p.], [self-published], 2012.

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In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape. Hoxha, who was in power from 1944 to 1985, had approximately 750,000 bunkers constructed between 1967 and 1985 on the pretext of Albania needing to prepare for a possible attack from overseas, though ultimately, no actual conflict occurred. Concresco was awarded the Paris Photo—Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award, 2012.

First edition, number 13 of 26 copies with an original photograph (there was a choice of three prints, each in an edition of 26) from a total edition of 750, signed on the front flap; 4to (341 x 213 mm, 13½ x 8½ in); colour photographs printed in offset, text in English by Slavenka Drakulic and Jaap Scholten, design by Katie McGonigal; red card wrappers with flaps, upper side embossed and with titles in black, colour photograph (245 x 304 mm, 9¾ x 12 in) signed, numbered, and stamped on verso, publisher's brown card folding case printed in black, closed with thread and rivet fastenings. fine; [136]pp with [36]pp of smaller leaves bound in.

The Photobook: A History III, p210.

Stock code 111492

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In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers built in Albania during the rule of dictator Ever Hoxha and the role they now play in the modern landscape.

Concresco.

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