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Concrete Utopia: Jasenovac Memorial Complex

After World War II, Yugoslavia memorialized its fight against Axis powers, and the millions of wartime casualties suffered, with monuments like this one on the site of a razed concentration camp in Jasenovac, Croatia. The “Stone Flower” serves as a grave marker and an expression of a desire to unify the multiethnic country by demarcating its territory after the war with sites of collective remembrance. Explore Concrete Utopia. … [Bogdan Bogdanovic. “Jasenovac Memorial Complex.” 1959-66. Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, 2016]

quilt by Chinami Terai

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This is the image that touched my heart

Ornithologist Jerry McGahan is pictured with a 6 month old Andrean Condor, the largest flying bird on earth. Photographed by the Helen and Franck Schreider.  Another version of this photo made it to the cover of National Geographic.

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