Photo from the series “The Transparent City” by Michael Wolf.

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. Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.

See more at Michael Wolf’s website: www.photomichaelwolf.com

An Office Building from the series “Transparent City” by Michael Wolf.

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.

See more on Michael Wolf’s website: www.photomichaelwolf.com