Sunday, March 03, 2013

Tokyo Compression.



Michael Wolf's Tokyo Compression is the antithesis to John Schabel's Passenger. Rather than capturing intimate images of awestruck or contemplating passengers, Wolf snapped photographs of men and women stuffed in to 60x10 ft stainless steel compartments (aka subway cars). Passengers press their faces to the window in wariness, trace the lines of perspiration on the glass, or find themselves in extreme discomfort as they are shoved against the subway walls by other riders. In the end, Tokyo Compression comes to portray the modern era's metropolitan areas; the series is a portrait of overpopulation, and society's general malaise, exhaustion, and discomfort.










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