Michael Wolf is a German photographer I discovered another book, "The transparent city. He photographed huge glass towers around the world, sometimes zooming in on their occupants. I have often experienced alone, lost in a hotel on the 36th floor, watch who lived in the tower opposite and try to subdue its people. Voyeurism what! With
Tokyo Compression , Wolf explores something more confined, as it is a series of photos taken on the banks of the Tokyo subway stations, showing passenger cars in compressed rush hour, totally absorbed in their thoughts. Almost trapped like animals in a cattle car.
addition to their graphic qualities, aesthetic and poetic, it appears from these pictures something disturbing, a mixture of oppression, freedom, confinement, privacy and secretions (water vapor, perspiration and odors). A striking contrast between the promiscuity of the car packed and loneliness that emerges beings.
In fact, when it does nothing, even though we would be surrounded by dozens of people, we are in touch with our inner voices. One can not escape it.
There is something universal in there.
This book could have been photograph of the Swiss, the Mongols or the Egyptians: it is only when one thinks ... probably all more or less the same things.
Michael Wolf, Compression Tokyo, Peperoni Books, One Asia Publishing, 2010
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