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Fifty One Fine Art Photography
EN : Michael Wolf (°1954) was born in Munich, but at a young age he moved to North America. After college at Berkeley University in California, he attended the Folkwangschule in Essen, Germany, where he graduated as a photojournalist. The first 16 years of his career he worked as an editorial photographer for several German magazines like GEO, Time, Spiegel and Stern. However, he began to desire a more personal artistic vision and presumed he had to get out of Germany to find it. He decided therefore to move to Hong Kong, China, where he could develop his visual diversity. It was here that Wolf found his artistic voice and left his career as an editorial photographer behind. In an attempt to visualize the dense life in Hong Kong, Wolf examined the endless ranks of nearly identical residential housing complexes. Creating a distinctive style of photography, he photographed the high-rise buildings close together from opposing buildings. By doing this, he gained a direct vantage point that allowed him to remove the sky and to flatten the space to a relentless abstraction of urban expansion with no escape for the viewer’s eye. This is a technique he also applied in his Chicago photographs. The Transparent City is Wolf’s first body of work to address an American city. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focussing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.
EN : Michael Wolf (°1954) was born in Munich, but at a young age he moved to North America. After college at Berkeley University in California, he attended the Folkwangschule in Essen, Germany, where he graduated as a photojournalist. The first 16 years of his career he worked as an editorial photographer for several German magazines like GEO, Time, Spiegel and Stern. However, he began to desire a more personal artistic vision and presumed he had to get out of Germany to find it. He decided therefore to move to Hong Kong, China, where he could develop his visual diversity. It was here that Wolf found his artistic voice and left his career as an editorial photographer behind. In an attempt to visualize the dense life in Hong Kong, Wolf examined the endless ranks of nearly identical residential housing complexes. Creating a distinctive style of photography, he photographed the high-rise buildings close together from opposing buildings. By doing this, he gained a direct vantage point that allowed him to remove the sky and to flatten the space to a relentless abstraction of urban expansion with no escape for the viewer’s eye. This is a technique he also applied in his Chicago photographs. The Transparent City is Wolf’s first body of work to address an American city. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focussing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.
