First edition Tokyo Compression Three by Michael Wolf. First impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition. Pages clean and binding firm, however, there is some minor loss to text on spine of boards.
About
With “Tokyo Compression” Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and fellow travelers, have won many awards and were shown in exhibitions around the globe. The first two editions of this book are sold out.
And the topic kept haunting Michael Wolf as well. Again he returned to Tokyo in order to immerse in the subsurface insanity. Now with “Tokyo Compression Three” the third, completely revised edition of the classic is published, with many so far unreleased images and an entirely new “hidden track” at the end of the book. Before Michael Wolf other artists have created subway series, among them famous names such as Bruce Davidson and Walker Evans, the concept as well as the metonymy of “Compression” however is new. Michael Wolf is not interested in seat cushions, graffiti, interior architecture or the travelers relation to that. He rather discovered the subway system as suitable place in order to investigate mental state and aggregate condition of the city people.
