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June 21, 2008

Michael Wolf explores the humdrum and the ordinary in the city of Chicago. After years of photographing architectural and space form he was surprised to discover a tiny figure in one of his photos giving him the finger. Wolf went over his photographs expecting to be excited by action in every window, but discovered the opposite.

Geoff Manough quotes Wolf:

But it was a little sad to see, night after night, in all these buildings, that it was really just single people between the ages of twenty-five and forty, tired after work, sitting on the sofa watching TV. I was a bit disillusioned. I thought it would be more exciting than that.

Originally via rolu dsgn.

| Posted by cam at 11:18 AM | | Comments (4)
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So we see art having a critical edge and expressing insights that lie outside the world of market economics.

Did'nt Hitchcock's Real Window play around with this kind of stuff--voyeurism?

Pam, Yeh the anonymous visual connection as violence. I guess Wolf would argue that the reality is more mundane and is just tired people trying to relax after work.

That's why we have film.