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The 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, Columbia
College Chicago, in collaboration with the
U.S. Equities Realty artist-in-residence program,
invited Michael Wolf to photograph
the Chicago cityscape. 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 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 surreptitiously via
telephoto lenses: Edward Hopper meets Blade
Runner. The material resonates with all the
formalism of the constructed, architectonic
work for which Wolf is well-known, but also
emphasizes the conceptual underpinnings of
his ongoing engagement with the idea of how
modern life unfolds within the framework of
the ever-growing contemporary city.
08-04-29_Aperture-Cover.pdf 
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