Items Similar to Transparent City #32 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8
Michael WolfTransparent City #32 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper2007
2007
About the Item
Michael WOLF (1954 – 2019, Germany)
Transparent City #32, 2007
C–print
Sheet 121.9 x 162.5 cm (48 x 64 in.)
Edition of 9, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 2/9
Print only
– Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf was born in 1954 in Munich, Germany. He worked and lived in Paris and Hong Kong where he died in April 2019. The focus of Michael Wolf’s work is life in mega-cities. His projects document both the architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises. Born in Munich, Wolf grew up in Canada, Europe, and the United States, studying at UC Berkeley and at the Folkwang School with Otto Steinert in Essen, Germany. He moved to Hong Kong in 1994, where he worked for eight years as a contract photographer for Stern magazine. Since 2003, Wolf has been focusing on his own projects, publishing over thirty books of his work.
His work is held in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art in California, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and M+ in Hong Kong.
– Transparent City
Chicago, like many urban centers throughout the world, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a new layer of architectural experimentation onto those of past eras. In early 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, with the support of U.S. Equities Realty, invited Michael Wolf as an artist-in-residence to document this phenomenon. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux. This was Wolf's first body of work to address an American city. Whereas prior series have juxtaposed humanizing details within the surrounding geometry of the urban landscape, in The Transparent City, his details are fragments of life–digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged–snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses. ‘The ground is nowhere in sight in Wolf’s dramatically geometric, nearly abstract photographs of Chicago’s Loop towers. Shot from strategically selected rooftops and perfectly printed in an aptly large, vertical book, Wolf’s subtly modulated color photographs are monumental studies in grays, whites, blacks, golds, and occasional splashes of green and blue. Given their elegant grids, nuanced variations, and stillness, these images echo the minimalist paintings of Agnes Martin, yet this is the real world, and real people inhabit these immense cellular buildings, these boxy hives, these human filing cabinets, and Wolf’s stealthy, intrusive lens finds them, most often alone contemplating a television or computer. The lighting is exquisitely moody, each lit interior is a screen or stage, each human figure as poignant as those in the paintings of Edward Hopper, an artist Wolf, acclaimed for his earlier books on China, cites as an influence. With intimations of surveillance and vulnerability, these intensely beautiful cityscapes seem austere and inhuman until one lands on a magnified picture of a man giving the distant photographer the finger.’ – Donna Seaman
– Michael Wolf, Art, City, Street Photography, Colour Photography, Cityscape, Skyscraper, Building, Chicago, USA, Architecture, Geometry, Structure, Abstract, Rooftops, Night
- Creator:Michael Wolf (1954)
- Creation Year:2007
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.9 cm)Width: 63.98 in (162.5 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Framing:Framing Options Available
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Zurich, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128017375372
About the Seller
5.0
Recognized Seller
These prestigious sellers are industry leaders and represent the highest echelon for item quality and design.
Established in 2006
1stDibs seller since 2019
24 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: <1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Zurich, Switzerland
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 1 day of delivery.
More From This SellerView All
- Jack's Brook in Green, The Garden – Erik Madigan Heck, Fashion, Colour, ArtBy Erik Madigan HeckLocated in Zurich, CHErik MADIGAN HECK (*1983, United States) Jack's Brook in Green, The Garden, 2020 Chromogenic print Sheet 101.6 x 152.4 cm (40 x 60 in.) Edition of 9, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 2/9 Print onl...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
- Red Snapping Dragons, The Garden – Erik Madigan Heck, Landscape, Nature, ColourBy Erik Madigan HeckLocated in Zurich, CHErik MADIGAN HECK (*1983, United States) Red Snapping Dragons, The Garden, 2019 Chromogenic print Sheet 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.) Edition of 9, p...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
- A Perfect Mum #2 – Miles Aldridge, Woman, Fashion, Colour, Soccer, SportBy Miles AldridgeLocated in Zurich, CHMILES ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain) A Perfect Mum #2 2012 Chromogenic print Image 51 x 51 cm (20 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.) Sheet 59 x 59 cm (23 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.) Edition of 10, plus 2 AP, Ed. no. 2/10 A fiercely original photographer, Miles Aldridge (*1964, Great Britain) is best known for the technicolor dream-like worlds he creates and the glamorous, beautiful women who inhabit them. Aldridge creates ultra-cinematic images, drawing inspiration from film directors such as David Lynch and Federico Fellini as well as the psychedelic graphic design of his father, Alan Aldridge...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
- A Family Portrait #1 – Miles Aldridge, Woman, Fashion, Family, Park, Colour, ArtBy Miles AldridgeLocated in Zurich, CHMILES ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain) A Family Portrait #1 2011 Chromogenic print Image 67.5 x 101.5 cm (26 5/8 x 40 in.) Sheet 77.5 x 111.5 cm (30 1/2 x 43 7/8 in.) Edition of 10, ...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
- Blue Lilly Study – Erik Madigan Heck, Photography, Nature, Garden, Colour, NightBy Erik Madigan HeckLocated in Zurich, CHErik MADIGAN HECK (*1983, United States) Blue Lilly Study, 2022 Chromogenic print Sheet 152.4x 101.6 cm (60 x 40 in.) Edition of 9, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 1/9 print only Originally from...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
- I Love You With All My Heart #2 – Jung Lee, Neon, Text, Installation, SymbolBy Jung LeeLocated in Zurich, CHJung LEE (*1972, South Korea) I Love You With All My Heart #2, 2020 C-Type Print, Diasec Sheet 160 x 200 cm (63 x 78 3/4 in.) Frame 166,8 x 206,9 x 3,5 cm (65 5/8 x 81 1/2 x 1 3/8 in...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
You May Also Like
- Chaya Vance, Jellyfish at Mediterranean Sunset, 2020 c-print on D-sec 60x80 cmBy Chaya VanceLocated in Jerusalem, ILChaya Vance Jellyfish at Mediterranean Sunset, 2020 Photograph, c-print on D-sec 60x81 cm ed. 6 I am always observing, choosing to focus on the beauty in...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsPlexiglass, C Print
- Chaya Vance, Jellyfish on the Mediterranean, 2020 c-print on D-sec 60x80 cmBy Chaya VanceLocated in Jerusalem, ILChaya Vance Jellyfish on the Mediterranean, 2020 Photograph, c-print on D-sec 60x80 cm ed. 6 I am always observing, choosing to focus on the beauty in ev...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsPlexiglass, C Print
- Chaya Vance, Jellyfish at Mediterranean Dusk, 2020 c-print on D-sec 60x80 cmBy Chaya VanceLocated in Jerusalem, ILChaya Vance Jellyfish at Mediterranean Dusk, 2020 Photograph, c-print on D-sec 60x81 cm ed. 6 I am always observing, choosing to focus on the beauty in e...Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsPlexiglass, C Print
- "Placement (Disc)" photograph ocean beach reflection mirrorLocated in Phoenix, AZJulianne Swartz Placement (Disc), 2007 C-Print 13.5 x 17" unframed 14.75 x 18 inches framed Edition of 8 Often working with materials that could be purchased from the local hardwa...Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
MaterialsC Print
- Girl in the LightBy Ormond GigliLocated in Lenox, MAGirl in the Light Ormond Gigli Born New York City, 1925 Ormond Gigli became famous early on during the 1950s for his photographs of theatre, celebrities, dance, exotic persons & places. His work appeared prominently on covers & editorial pages of LIFE, TIME, PARIS MATCH, SATURDAY EVENING POST, COLLIERS, and other major international publications. Gigli's groundbreaking portraits include Sophia Loren (at age 21), Anita Ekberg, Marcel Duchamp, John F. Kennedy, Halston, Gina Lollobrigida, Diana Vreeland, Giancarlo Giannini, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Sir Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates...Category
20th Century Contemporary Color Photography
MaterialsC Print
- Massimo Listri, Biblioteca Apostolica V, Vatican City Rome 2015. C-print, Ed of5By Massimo ListriLocated in London, GBC-Print mounted on aluminum and framed. Edition of 5 Signed, numbered and titled on label. Various sizes available. 120 x 100 cm (47,2'' x 39,3'' Inches) - € 12.500 150 x 120 cm (5...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
MaterialsC Print
