Editor: Wayne Hemingway
Publisher: The Photographers' Gallery, London
Publication: 2006, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, perfect-bound
Pages: 92
Size: 155 x 210
Text: English
ISBN: 0907879772
(Foreword) 'Mention the word 'prefab' to anyone living in contemporary Britain and the image conjured up in most people's minds is of something with a stigma attached. Until recently, prefabs had suffered a bad press. Yet for many people whose homes were destroyed during World War Il, the construction of 150,000 prefabs within a five year period following the end of the war provided not just a temporary roof over their heads, but restored a sense of community and a semblance of social cohesion. As Richard Okon has so vividly evoked - through images and interview excerpts in this specially commissioned project - these dwellings offered huge scope for individual expression and independent living. Hearing the owners speak of their emotional and physical investment in the creation of their domestic interiors and gardens summons up a lost sense of pride and reminds us of the short-sightedness of much of what has passed since the sixties for urban housing schemes...'
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