مايكل وولف
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Микаэль Вольф

Real Fake Art

source: photomichaelwolf

lives in hong kong. Born munich, germany.

the focus of the german photographer michael wolf’s work is life in mega cities. many of his projects document the architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises. wolf grew up in canada, europe and the united states, studying at uc berkeley and at the folkwang school with otto steinert in essen, germany. he moved to hong kong in 1994 where he worked for 8 years as contract photographer for stern magazine. since 2001, wolf has been focusing on his own projects, many of which have been published as books.

wolf’s work has been exhibited in numerous locations, including the venice bienniale for architecture, aperture gallery, new york; museum centre vapriikki, tampere, finland, museum for work in hamburg, germany, hong kong shenzhen biennial, museum of contemporary photography, chicago. his work is held in many permanent collections, including the metropolitan museum of art in new york, the brooklyn museum, the san jose museum of art, california; the museum of contemporary photography, chicago; museum folkwang, essen and the german museum for architecture, frankfurt.

he has won first prize in the world press photo award competition on two occasions (2005 & 2010) and an honorable mention (2011.) in 2010, wolf was shortlisted for the prix pictet photography prize.

he has published more than 13 photo books including bottrop ebel 1976 (peperoni press 2012) tokyo compression three (peperoni press/asia one 2012,) architecture of density (peperoni press/asia one 2012,) hong kong corner houses (hong kong university press, 2011) portraits (superlabo, japan,2011) tokyo compression revisited (peperoni press/asia one 2011,) real fake art (peperoni press/asia one 2011,) fy (peperoni press, 2010,) a series of unfortunate events. (peperoni press, 2010,) tokyo compression (peperoni press/asia one 2010,) hongkong inside outside (asia one/peperoni press 2009,) the transparent city (aperture 2008) and sitting in china (steidl 2002).
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source: blogartronnet

有一类摄影师是天生的世界主义者，迈克尔·沃夫 (Michael Wolf) 如是，他是一位摄影师也是艺术家，出生于德国慕尼黑，在美国长大，在中国呆了超过十年。2010年的 “世界新闻摄影” 奖时事组的得奖图片授予了麦可·沃尔夫（Michael Wolf），这并不令人惊讶，因为此人2009年就获得过“世界新闻图片奖”的奖项。

迈克尔.沃尔夫2006年深入到深圳的大芬画家村，只用了三两天的时间就拍摄完成了他的这组《中国拷贝艺术者》。