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Aperture is pleased to offer this very special limited-edition photograph to our collecting audience in conjunction with the opening of Michael Wolf : The Transparent City opening at Aperture gallery on November 12, 2009. Here, Wolf is re-interpreting the work by producing a print which is a composite of two images he created in the series. Chicago, like many urban centers throughout the world, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a a new layer of experimentation onto those past eras. In 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, in collaboration with the U. S. Equities Realty artist-in-residence program, invited Michael Wolf to photograph the Chicago cityscape. This is Wolf’s first body of work to address an Amercian city. Whereas prior series have juxtaposed humanizing details within the surronding geometry of the urban landscape, in The Transparent City, his details are fragments of life—digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged, snatched through a telephoto lens. In Transparent City Composite #1, we view both sides of this wonderful project – the architectonic work for which Wolf is well known, aligned with one of his details, speaking to the modern lives unfolding within the framework of the ever-growing contemporary city. Michael Wolf (born in Munich, 1954) grew up in the United States, and studied at UC Berkeley and 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. |
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