Statement by the photographer, Peter BIALOBRZESKI
"After [Hitler] integrated Austria into the German Reich, he wanted to turn the city of Linz into a Nazi-modeltown." (© Peter BIALOBRZESKI, 2019)
Background information
The 'City Diary' photo book series is a joint publishing project between The Velvet Cell and award-winning German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI. Each diary, of which about two books are published per year, focuses on a single city somewhere in the world, against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing world. All books in the series have the same format, dimensions and number of pages.
Linz, Austria, was a provincial and local government city of the Holy Roman Empire, and an important trading point connecting several routes, on either side of the river Danube from the east to the west and Bohemia and Poland from north to the Balkans and Italy to the south. The dictator Adolf Hitler considered Linz to be his hometown. The photographs for the 'Linz Diary' were shot between 18th and the 29th 2017 and is the 14th installment in the City Diary series.
Content
The photo volume 'Linz Diary' from the 'Diary' book series by German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI contains full-page color photographs depicting the cityscape of Austrian city Linz in 2019.