Background information
"The publication 'Twentysix Houses Along Waldeggstrasse' by Otto HAINZL cites the iconic artist's book 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations' by Ed RUSCHA from 1963. The images of the Austrian photo artist link the dramaturgy of social life with questions about urban development concepts. The buildings on Waldeggstrasse have been unoccupied for ten years, and it will be almost another ten years before the 'gap' is closed to form an inner-city highway axis. And so the arc spans from the automobile culture of the 1960s in America to the European present and questions the direction in which we want to shape this development.
Content
The half-page black-and-white photographs in landscape format, always arranged in the upper half, in the footband 'Twentysix Houses Along Waldeggstrasse' by Otto HAINZL show a barbershop, an Asian market, signs upon signs, curtains, and behind them apartments. At first glance a street like any other, but something irritates. Finally, you realize that the pictures only show vacancies." (© Kehrer Verlag, 2022)