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Michael Wolf
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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 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 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 that speaks to the modern lives unfolding within the framework of the ever-growing contemporary city.
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 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 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 that speaks to the modern lives unfolding within the framework of the ever-growing contemporary city.