REAL PHOTO - Algiers, ALGERIA - Monument for the Dead of the Great War - WWI:  Algiers, Algeria - Architects Maurice Gras and Edouard Monestes - Sculptors Paul Landowski's (with bas-reliefs on the base carved by Bigonet) - Monument of the Dead (of WW1). In the late 1970s, the mayor of Algiers appointed Mæhamed Issiakhem, one of the founders of AlgeriaÆs modern art movement, to hide this remnant of colonialism. Not wanting to remove or destroy the statue, the artist decided to enclose it in a sort of concrete sarcophagus. Unattributed postcard.  This Real Photo shows the original monument before encased in the concrete sarcophagus.  This Real Photo postcard is in good condition.  C. & P. Strasbourg.  No. 322.