Michael Wolf

Architecture of Density #101 – Michael Wolf, Photography, Architecture, City

2008

Michael WOLF (1954 – 2019, Germany) Transparent City #25, 2007 C–print Sheet 121.9 x 162.5 cm (48 x 64 in.) Edition of 9, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 4/9 Prin...

RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Utatane' 2001 C-type print Sheet 25,4 x 20,3 cm (10 x 8 in.) Frame 26 x 21 x 2,5 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 1 in.) Edition of 6; Ed...

RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Utatane' 2001 C–type print Sheet 101,6 x 101,6 cm (40 x 40 in.) Edition of 6; Ed. no. 4/6 This photograph belongs to the se...

RISAKU SUZUKI (*1963, Japan) SAKURA 10,4-64 2021 Chromogenic print Sheet 120 x 150 cm (47 1/4 x 59 1/8 in.) Edition of 5; Ed. no. 1/5 Framed The Sakura (Japanese term for ‘cherry b...

Miles ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain) Him (after Cattelan), 2016 Chromogenic print Image 152.5 x 116.5 cm (60 x 45 3/4 in.) Sheet 164.4 x 128.4 cm (64 3/4 x 50 1/2 in.) Edition of 6,...

Rinko Kawauchi Untitled, from the series 'Illuminance', 2009 C-print Image 19,7 x 29,8 cm (7 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.) Sheet 25,4 x 30,5 cm (10 x 12 in.) Frame 26,5 x 31,5 x 2,5 cm ( 10 3/8 x 12 3/8 x 1 in.) Edition of 6 (#1/6) Reminiscent of Japanese photography of the 1960s Rinko Kawauchi’s work is the search for the sublime amid the banal. Her series ‘HANABI’ (Japanese term for ‘firework’) depicts the photographer's vision of a fireworks show. The breezes of summer nights, the footsteps of children running alongside a riverbank, clouds portending warm showers and the sweet smell of apple candy are at powerfully nostalgic, at once both beautiful and melancholy. We are drawn in by a dance of lights and colors, and in the blink of an eye, an elegant and sensory party draws to a close, leaving us wondering what Kawauchi saw in the fireworks, and what lies beyond them. Kawauchi, currently one of the most famed contemporary female Asian artists...

Carol Beckwith, (American, b. 1945), Maasai Portrait Chromogenic print on paper, from Beckwith's book "Maasai" (1980), Hand signed in pencil, dated and titled with name of sitter in margins, 19" x 16" Sheet. Carol Beckwith (1945-) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with the Australian photographer Angela Fisher. Between them, Beckwith and Fisher have published 14 books, and have had their photos appear in National Geographic, Natural History, African Arts, The Observer Magazine, Time, Life, Vogue, Marie Claire and Elle. They continue to exhibit and lecture at galleries and museums worldwide, including The American Museum of Natural History and The Explorers Club in New York City, The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Royal Geographical Society in London. They have also collaborated on four films about African traditions. Together they have received numerous accolades, including the United Nations Award for Excellence, the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal, two Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, The Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award, and the WINGS WorldQuest Lifetime Achievement Award. Carol Beckwith was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where she went on to attend both the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Goucher College in Maryland. After obtaining her degree in Painting and Photography she won a traveling fellowship from the Boston Museum, which let her travel to other countries for the first time. She spent seven months in Japan, living in a Zen temple and studying calligraphy painting. She continued to travel through Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where she witnessed a "sing-sing", a gathering of 90,000 Highland warriors, in Mount Hagen, and paddled up Chambri Lakes in a canoe, an experience she called "one of the most wonderful, and in a way formative, experiences in my life." Her first trip to Africa was in 1973, when she was invited to spend Christmas with a friend in Kenya. Beckwith bought a 45-day roundtrip ticket and ended up staying eight months. There she encountered the Maasai people who invited her to witness a female circumcision ceremony. Astonished by the ritual, she then determined to spend more time with the Maasai. Beckwith studied photography in college but had initially intended to become a painter. It was during her travels through New Guinea that she realized the advantages of photography, saying that "there was such a vast amount of exciting material that I began to photograph instead, approaching photography with the eye of a painter in terms of light, color, composition. I wanted the images to be multi layered experiences in a way that a painting is. . . [Photography] seemed to be a more suitable medium for the pace of travel." Beckwith's first major collaboration was with Tepilit Ole Saitoti, an anthropologist and former Maasai warrior...

Kenneth Snelson (American, 1927-2016). Photograph depicting a panorama of the Seine river and bridges in Paris, France Hand signed, dated 1985, numbe...

Ellen Kaplowitz "Eiffel Tower, Paris", photograph print, Hand signed and titled verso, 15.75"h x 23.75"w (sight), 17"h x 25"w (frame) Ellen Kaplowitz has been globetrotting and snapping photos along the way for more than two decades. She has traveled to all seven continents, has worked in China, Ghana, Cambodia, Laos, India, Ethiopia, Bhutan, France, Cuba, Morocco and Libya (to name only a few of her locales). Kaplowitz’s photographs have been seen in numerous museums across the United States, including the Field Museum, the Newark Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Pacific Asia Museum, the Asia Society, the Museum for African Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the New-York Historical Society, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Houston Museum of African American Culture and galleries, Tyler Rollins, New York and Carl Schlosberg’s Fine Arts, Los Angeles, Artless Gallery, Tokyo. Her photographs have been published in magazines such as Time and Natural History, as well as her book A World of Decent Dreams: Vietnam Images. She is working on a book of Eastern Tibet. Photographs by Ellen Kaplowitz have been published in Natural History, Time, and other magazines, as well as in her book, A World of Decent Dreams: Vietnam Images (Weatherhill, 2003). Her images have also appeared in a number of museums, including the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the Field Museum in Chicago, and in galleries in Los Angeles and New York City. Kaplowitz, a member of the Explorers Club...

Carol Beckwith, (American, b. 1945), Maasai Portrait Chromogenic print on paper, from Beckwith's book "Maasai" (1980), Hand signed in pencil, dated and titled with name of sitter in margins, 19" x 16" Sheet. Carol Beckwith (1945-) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with the Australian photographer Angela Fisher. Between them, Beckwith and Fisher have published 14 books, and have had their photos appear in National Geographic, Natural History, African Arts, The Observer Magazine, Time, Life, Vogue, Marie Claire and Elle. They continue to exhibit and lecture at galleries and museums worldwide, including The American Museum of Natural History and The Explorers Club in New York City, The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Royal Geographical Society in London. They have also collaborated on four films about African traditions. Together they have received numerous accolades, including the United Nations Award for Excellence, the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal, two Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, The Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award, and the WINGS WorldQuest Lifetime Achievement Award. Carol Beckwith was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where she went on to attend both the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Goucher College in Maryland. After obtaining her degree in Painting and Photography she won a traveling fellowship from the Boston Museum, which let her travel to other countries for the first time. She spent seven months in Japan, living in a Zen temple and studying calligraphy painting. She continued to travel through Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where she witnessed a "sing-sing", a gathering of 90,000 Highland warriors, in Mount Hagen, and paddled up Chambri Lakes in a canoe, an experience she called "one of the most wonderful, and in a way formative, experiences in my life." Her first trip to Africa was in 1973, when she was invited to spend Christmas with a friend in Kenya. Beckwith bought a 45-day roundtrip ticket and ended up staying eight months. There she encountered the Maasai people who invited her to witness a female circumcision ceremony. Astonished by the ritual, she then determined to spend more time with the Maasai. Beckwith studied photography in college but had initially intended to become a painter. It was during her travels through New Guinea that she realized the advantages of photography, saying that "there was such a vast amount of exciting material that I began to photograph instead, approaching photography with the eye of a painter in terms of light, color, composition. I wanted the images to be multi layered experiences in a way that a painting is. . . [Photography] seemed to be a more suitable medium for the pace of travel." Beckwith's first major collaboration was with Tepilit Ole Saitoti, an anthropologist and former Maasai warrior...

Laurent Chéhere, a French photographer born in 1972 in Paris, makes images of flying houses and other dwellings that are informed by his wanderings in the hidden neighborhoods of Par...

Laurent Chéhere, a French photographer born in 1972 in Paris, makes images of flying houses and other dwellings that are informed by his wanderings in the hidden neighborhoods of Par...