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"With 'Tokyo Compression' Michael WOLF hit a nerve.
The multi-award-winning portraits of people trapped between glass, steel and fellow travelers on the Tokyo subway were shown in exhibitions around the world; the first issue of the book was out of print in a matter of weeks.
Michael WOLF did not let go of the topic. He went back to Tokyo, to once again and deeper into the underground madness to dive.
With 'Tokyo Compression Revisited' the second, completely reworked edition of the classic with many previously unpublished pictures and a completely new credits at the end of the book will be released.
Before Michael WOLF, other artists also took pictures in the subway, including such famous names as Bruce DAVIDSON and Walker EVANS, but the approach and imagery of 'Tokyo Compression' are new.
Michael WOLF is not interested in upholstery, graffiti, interior design of the wagons and the relationship of the Metrofahrer to it. Rather, he has discovered the Subway system as a suitable place to explore soul and aggregate states of the city folk.
He saves all accessories, focuses exclusively on faces and figures, and with his radical aesthetics creates monstrously intense images that aim directly at the inner life of the portrayed in a disturbing, even shocking way.
With his accompanying essay 'Tokyo Sunway Dreams', Christian Schüle provides a grim diagnosis of mass commonality in modern mega-cities." (publisher's text, © Hannes Wanderer / peperoni books, 2011)
The multi-award-winning portraits of people trapped between glass, steel and fellow travelers on the Tokyo subway were shown in exhibitions around the world; the first issue of the book was out of print in a matter of weeks.
Michael WOLF did not let go of the topic. He went back to Tokyo, to once again and deeper into the underground madness to dive.
With 'Tokyo Compression Revisited' the second, completely reworked edition of the classic with many previously unpublished pictures and a completely new credits at the end of the book will be released.
Before Michael WOLF, other artists also took pictures in the subway, including such famous names as Bruce DAVIDSON and Walker EVANS, but the approach and imagery of 'Tokyo Compression' are new.
Michael WOLF is not interested in upholstery, graffiti, interior design of the wagons and the relationship of the Metrofahrer to it. Rather, he has discovered the Subway system as a suitable place to explore soul and aggregate states of the city folk.
He saves all accessories, focuses exclusively on faces and figures, and with his radical aesthetics creates monstrously intense images that aim directly at the inner life of the portrayed in a disturbing, even shocking way.
With his accompanying essay 'Tokyo Sunway Dreams', Christian Schüle provides a grim diagnosis of mass commonality in modern mega-cities." (publisher's text, © Hannes Wanderer / peperoni books, 2011)
- Format
- Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English