Tag: Michael Wolf
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Michael Wolf : Life in Cities
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/michael-wolf-life-in-cities-2-pp/ The Robert Koch Gallery presents Michael Wolf: Life in Cities, a survey celebrating Michael Wolf’s life and work. For over four decades Wolf examined the layered urban landscape, addressing juxtapositions of public and private space, and anonymity and individuality in relation to history and modern development. Michael Wolf’s work on life in cities was…
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Michael Wolf talks about "The Transparent City" – Conscientious
Link: Here’s a first, something I’ve been thinking about for a while: Video artist talks. This one, the first of its kind, has Michael Wolf talk about his project The Transparent City, which is currently on view at Aperture.
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Michael Wolf, life in cities – The Eye of Photography
Link: German photographer Michael Wolf’s started his series entitled Life in Cities in 2011. An update of his project now on view at Christophe Guye Galerie in Zürich gives an even deeper insight in Wolf’s extensive, culturally investigative and artistic work on life in mega-cities. His projects document both the architecture and the vernacular culture…
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Michael Wolf, Photographer of Mega-Cities, Dies in Hong Kong – The New York Times
Link: Award-winning German photographer Michael Wolf, best known for his photos showing the quirks and density of megacities, has died. He was 64.
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Michael Wolf’s homegoing comes after sunrise – Feature Shoot
Michael Wolf’s homegoing comes after sunrise – Feature Shoot When German photographer Michael Wolf died in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, on April 24 at the age of 64, he left behind a prodigious body of work that spans 25… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/06/michael-wolfs-homegoing-comes-after-sunrise/ When German photographer Michael Wolf died in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, on…
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Megacities Photographer Michael Wolf Dies at 64
Megacities Photographer Michael Wolf Dies at 64 Award-winning German photographer Michael Wolf, best known for his photos showing the quirks and density of megacities, has died. He was 64. The New York via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/04/26/megacities-photographer-michael-wolf-dies-at-64/ Award-winning German photographer Michael Wolf, best known for his photos showing the quirks and density of megacities, has died. He…
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Fascinating Photos Inside China’s Toy Factories by Michael Wolf
Fascinating Photos Inside China’s Toy Factories by Michael Wolf Covering gallery walls with over 20,000 castaway toys, German photographer Michael Wolf thrusts visitors into the heart of consumerism with his series Real Toy Story. Though Chinese culture has taken the world stage in recent years, Wolf has long called t via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/01/fascinating-photos-inside-chinas-toy-factories-by-michael-wolf/ Covering…
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Michael Wolf’s “The Architecture of Density
Juxtapoz Magazine – Michael Wolf’s “The Architecture of Density” Michael Wolf's photographic study of Hong Kong, “The Architecture of Density,” features photos of the city's buildings photographed… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/michael-wolfs-the-architecture-of-density Michael Wolf’s photographic study of Hong Kong, “The Architecture of Density,” features photos of the city’s buildings photographed without the horizon
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Michael Wolf Captures the Unbelievably Dense Living Conditions of Hong Kong Residents
Michael Wolf Captures the Unbelievably Dense Living Conditions of Hong Kong Residents There is something utterly fascinating about German-born photographer Michael Wolf’s Architecture of Density. Hong Kong, Wolf’s adopted city of fifteen years is home to seven million people and Wolf’s images ponder contemporary urban life in one of the mo via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/04/michael-wolf-captures-the-unbelievably-dense-living-conditions-of-hong-kong-residents/…
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Video: “Peeping” profile of photographer Michael Wolf
Link: Video: “Peeping” profile of photographer Michael Wolf – lens culture photography weblog
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Michael Wolf's FY
Foto8: The details are indistinct, a mesh of pixellation intervenes. The gesture could be a joke, could be playful. Or defiant: a threat.
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lens culture: Michael Wolf, A Series of Unfortunate Events
Photojournalism was yet-again re-defined earlier this year when Michael Wolf was awarded an honorable mention in the World Press Photo competition for photographs he took of his computer screen. Link: lens culture: Michael Wolf, A Series of Unfortunate Events
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photo-eye Book Reviews: Hong Kong Inside Outside
photo-eye Book Reviews: Hong Kong Inside Outside Hong Kong Inside Outside , Photographs by Michael Wolf . Published by Asia One Books/Peperoni Books, 2009. Hong Kong Inside Outside … Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/04/photo-eye-book-reviews-hong-kong-inside.html I must admit, Michael Wolf’s two-volume portrayal of urban planning run amok had me running in circles for a while. I was stymied by…
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Michael Wolf welcomes World Press Photo controversy – BJP
A month after receiving a honorable mention in this year’s World Press Photo contest, photographer Michael Wolf catches up with BJP. Video interview Link: Michael Wolf welcomes World Press Photo controversy – British Journal of Photography
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World Press Photo: Is Google Street View photojournalism? – British Journal of Photography
German artist and photographer Michael Wolf received an honorable mention in this year’s World Press Photo for his work A Series of Unfortunate Events based on Google Street View. He speaks with BJP Link: World Press Photo: Is Google Street View photojournalism? – British Journal of Photography
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Showcase: A Room of Everyone’s Own – Lens Blog
Michael Wolf’s project, “Architecture of Density,” focused on Hong Kong’s exteriors, but when people began to ask him what the insides of the buildings he photographed look like, he decided to bring his camera indoors. Through a friend, he met a social worker who took him around Shek Kip Mei, which was scheduled to be…
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Showcase: Life Behind Glass – Lens Blog
Showcase: Life Behind Glass – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Michael Wolf composed his photographs, eliminating any horizon by cutting off the tops and bottoms of the buildings in his frame. There are no visual paths out of his images, making them feel claustrophobic. He calls this “no-exit photography.”
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lens culture: Michael Wolf book review
Big cities can sometimes seem like immense visual abstractions.The jam-packed juxtapositions of diverse styles of architecture — all compressed into dense overlapping vertical spaces — can be seen as things of rare man-made beauty. These soaring glass-walled environments also invite a sometimes perverse delight in voyeurism. Michael Wolf’s new photobook, The Transparent City, captures both…