Photo-Book: Architecture of Density | Michael Wolf
Photo-Book: Architecture of Density | Michael Wolf
Publisher: Peperoni Books, Germany, 2022
Fourth edition
31 x 24 cm
Hardcover
128 pages, 87 images
English
ISBN: 978-3-9819805-1-6
Focused on specific visual elements, Michael Wolf has depicted high density living in one of the world’s most crowded cities like nobody has before. For “Architecture of Density”, Wolf fashioned a distinctive style of photography. He removes any sky or horizon line from the frame and flattens the space until it becomes a relentless abstraction of urban expansion, with no escape for the viewer’s eye. Wolf’s disorienting vantage point gives the viewer the feeling that the buildings extend indefinitely, which perhaps is the spatial experience of Hong Kong’s inhabitants.
Since its first publication in 2012, the photo book “Architecture of Density” has become one of Wolf’s world-renowned projects. This reprint contains a number of unpublished images from this unique and outstanding photo series.
Michael Wolf (吳爾夫) 利用獨特的視覺元素，前所未有地描繪出香港高密度的城市生活。在《密度建築》系列中，Wolf 塑造了一種獨特的攝影風格。他從框架中移除所有天空或者地平線，並將空間壓縮，直到只剩下無情的城市擴張，觀眾的眼睛無法從影像中抽離。 Wolf 令人迷失方向的視角，讓建築有一種無限延伸的感覺，這也許反映不少香港人體驗城市空間的經歷。
自 2012 年首次出版以來，Wolf 憑着《密度建築》攝影集享譽國際。 此重印版亦包含同系列從未發布的圖像。
