Michael Wolf: TC Composite #1, 2009

Aperture is pleased to offer this very special limited-edition photograph to our collecting audience in conjunction with the publication and exhibition of Michael Wolf: The Transparent City at Aperture Gallery in November 2009.

Here, Wolf has reinterpreted the work by producing a print; it is a composite of two images he created for the series, The Transparent City. Like many urban centers, Chicago has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a new layer of experimentation onto past eras. In 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. 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 details are fragments of life—digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged, snatched through a telephoto lens.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.