Hong Kong: Front Door / Back Door
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Yet it is also an insight into a peculiarly unpopulated place, inhabited only by the traces of city dwellers.
The dense architecture and dark back alleys of Hong Kong are home to strangely animated objects that at first glance appear to be the random detritus of the manmade world. But under the close scrutiny of Michael Wolf's photographic eye, these articles become fascinating installation pieces, while the abstract patterns on high-rise blocks reveal the beauty and order that underlie the city's apparent chaos. The scale of Wolf's vision alternates between the grand and the intimate, capturing both the striking facades of the buildings themselves and the minute human interventions that mark them.
Wolf's photographs reflect a deft combination of Western aesthetic formalism and Eastern wabi-sabi. The accompanying texts by Kenneth Baker and Douglas Young explore the choices people make of lifestyle, forms, functions, identity and design, as well as the notion of Hong Kong as a brand.
The dense architecture and dark back alleys of Hong Kong are home to strangely animated objects that at first glance appear to be the random detritus of the manmade world. But under the close scrutiny of Michael Wolf's photographic eye, these articles become fascinating installation pieces, while the abstract patterns on high-rise blocks reveal the beauty and order that underlie the city's apparent chaos. The scale of Wolf's vision alternates between the grand and the intimate, capturing both the striking facades of the buildings themselves and the minute human interventions that mark them.
Wolf's photographs reflect a deft combination of Western aesthetic formalism and Eastern wabi-sabi. The accompanying texts by Kenneth Baker and Douglas Young explore the choices people make of lifestyle, forms, functions, identity and design, as well as the notion of Hong Kong as a brand.
Extent: 120 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: 71
Publication date: 2005-09-26
Size: 36.5 x 27.0 cm
ISBN: 9780500543047
Press Reviews
Sunday Times
RPS Journal
iD Magazine
About the Authors
Michael Wolf studied photography at the Folkwangschule, Essen. In 1995 he moved to Hong Kong as a contract photographer for Asia.
Kenneth Baker is the art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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