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"German-born photographer Michael WOLF lived in Hong Kong for more than 20 years. Like no one else, he captured the specific visual aspects of one of the most densely populated cities in the world in stunning images. 'Hong Kong Inside Outside' combines two major series of his work: 'Architecture of Density' and '100 x 100'.
Michael WOLF has developed a striking style for 'Architecture of Density'. Without streets, skies, horizons, the space becomes an impenetrable abstraction of urban expansion - there is no escape for the eye of the beholder.
WOLF photographs dilapidated houses, brand new buildings, still clad with bamboo scaffolding or tarpaulins, as well as fully inhabited residential and office complexes. WOLF's disorienting gaze gives the viewer the feeling that the buildings are extending to infinity. A feeling that may really reflect the spatial perception of Hong Kong residents.
The anonymity of the outside in 'Architecture of Density' faces WOLF's '100 x 100' series.
This series shows 100 portraits of people living surrounded by their belongings in tight, identical spaces of a social construction complex.
All images are taken in the same way and thus form a typology that allows the viewer to study how differently people acquire the limited space." (publisher's note, © Hannes Wanderer / Peperoni books, 2009)
"German-born photographer Michael WOLF lived in Hong Kong for more than 20 years. Like no one else, he captured the specific visual aspects of one of the most densely populated cities in the world in stunning images. 'Hong Kong Inside Outside' combines two major series of his work: 'Architecture of Density' and '100 x 100'.
Michael WOLF has developed a striking style for 'Architecture of Density'. Without streets, skies, horizons, the space becomes an impenetrable abstraction of urban expansion - there is no escape for the eye of the beholder.
WOLF photographs dilapidated houses, brand new buildings, still clad with bamboo scaffolding or tarpaulins, as well as fully inhabited residential and office complexes. WOLF's disorienting gaze gives the viewer the feeling that the buildings are extending to infinity. A feeling that may really reflect the spatial perception of Hong Kong residents.
The anonymity of the outside in 'Architecture of Density' faces WOLF's '100 x 100' series.
This series shows 100 portraits of people living surrounded by their belongings in tight, identical spaces of a social construction complex.
All images are taken in the same way and thus form a typology that allows the viewer to study how differently people acquire the limited space." (publisher's note, © Hannes Wanderer / Peperoni books, 2009)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Natasha Egan, Hoyin Lee, Lynne DiStefano, Ernest Chui
- Format
- Two slipcased HC, 31 x 24 x 4 cm., 352 pp., color ills., text language: English