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New York, New York

Michael Wolf: The Transparent City
Artist's Talk and Book Signing

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
6:30 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Exhibition on View:
Saturday, November 7–Thursday, January 7, 2010

Join Michael Wolf for an artist's talk and book signing on the occasion of the Aperture Gallery exhibition, Michael Wolf: The Transparent City. Chicago, like many of the world's great urban centers, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a fresh layer of architectural experimentation onto those of past eras. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architecture, Michael Wolf chose to photograph Chicago's central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux. His first body of work to address an American city, The Transparent City (November 2008, Aperture/Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago), was created as part of the Chicago-based U.S. Equities Realty Artist-in-Residence program, a collaboration with MoCP.

Michael Wolf (born in Munich, 1954) grew up in the United States, attended UC Berkeley, and studied with Otto Steinert at the University of Essen in Germany. Two previous books—Sitting in China (2002) and Hong Kong: front door/back door (2005)—feature his much-acclaimed photographs of China. Wolf lives and works in Hong Kong and Paris.