The photo series encompasses images of Prora, the monumental but uncompleted Nazi seaside resort and of Binz, the close by, thriving tourist spa in northern Germany.

Tanya Ury

2007 (15.10.) Pdf versions of Ury’s article (English and German) Theme Park Reconstructed including all images of the photo series Theme Park, published in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Volume 7, Number 4, English and German versions: reconstruction.eserver.org/074/uryenglish
reconstruction.eserver.org/074/urydeutsch

"This piece represents the best of politico-historical art, a sort of essay version of Sebald - a genre of criticism too little explored, practised, etc. The images themselves, as well as the way Ury has placed them within the well-documented text, create an uncanny (unheimlich) feel with respect to the twinning of past and future, tourism and fascism, ruin and reconstruction. Not only that, but Ury tells about a real place and situation, so that social forces are revealed which are intensified by her aesthetic vision."
Alan Clinton Submissions editor, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture,
January 2007