The third edition of the photobook classic.

With "Tokyo Compression" Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and fellow travelers, have won many awards and were shown in exhibitions around the globe. The first two editions of this book are sold out.

And the topic kept haunting Michael Wolf as well. Again he returned to Tokyo in order to immerse in the subsurface insanity. Now with "Tokyo Compression Three" the third, completely revised edition of the classic is published, with many so far unreleased images and an entirely new "hidden track" at the end of the book.

Before Michael Wolf other artists have created subway series, among them famous names such as Bruce Davidson and Walker Evans, the concept as well as the metonymy of "Compression" however is new. Michael Wolf is not interested in seat cushions, graffiti, interior architecture or the traveler’s relation to that. He rather discovered the subway system as suitable place in order to investigate mental state and aggregate condition of the city people. Wolf leaves out all accessories, focuses just faces and figures. With his radical aesthetics he creates enormously intensive pictures that in a distressing, yes shocking manner directly aim into the portrayed people’s inner life.

With his accompanying essay TOKYO SUBWAY DREAMS Christian Schüle delivers a gloomy diagnosis to the mass loneliness in modern megacities.

經典攝影集《Tokyo Compression》第三部曲。

Michael Wolf 的《Tokyo Compression》系列描繪出東京上班族於地鐵途中被困在玻璃、鋼鐵和同路人之間，畫面觸動所有觀眾神經；此系列獲得了許多獎項，並曾於全球各地展覽中展出。此攝影集的前兩版經已售罄。

這個系列一直纏繞著 Michael Wolf，促使他一而再、再而三回到東京，沉浸於地底的瘋狂之中。《Tokyo Compression Three》的出版，是為了作為完整系列的完全修訂版，書中有許多前兩版並未發布過的影像，以及一個全新的「隱藏收錄」圖像於書末。

Michael Wolf 完成《Tokyo Compression》之前，不少藝術家亦創作過地鐵系列，其中包括 Bruce Davidson 及 Walker Evans 等藝術家；然而「壓縮」這個概念和喻意是前所未見的。 Michael Wolf 對座墊、塗鴉、室內建築或旅行者與地鐵的關係都不感興趣，他寧願把地鐵視為一個調查城市人的精神狀態和整體狀況的系統。 Wolf 忽略了所有的配飾，只關注面孔和人物。憑藉他激進的美學，創造出極其密集的畫面，以一種令人痛苦、令人震撼的方式，直接瞄準了畫面裡人們的內心世界。

攝影集隨附由 Christian Schüle 撰寫的文章《 TOKYO SUBWAY DREAMS》，剖析出現代大城市普遍孤獨感的悲哀。