Publisher/Peperoni Books

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Bottrop-Ebel 76 is a collection of works by German photographer Michael Wolf (1954-2019). He began working as a journalist in the 1990s and spent several years in Hong Kong on a commission from Germany's prestigious Stern magazine, but gradually shifted his focus to fine art as he watched the decline of the magazine industry. Wolf subsequently produced significant works that depicted the landscapes, expressions, and fragments of cities around the world, especially large cities, from various angles, with the theme of "cities." His portrait series, which uses crowded trains on the Tokyo subway as a motif, is known as Wolf's masterpiece. This is a collection of images taken in the mid-1970s in Bottrop, a small coal mining village in the Ruhr region of Germany. Wolf, who was studying at the Volkswagen Design School at the time, was interested in the changes in the declining industrial city, the people who lived there, and even the lifestyle and community, and this perspective became the foundation of his career as a journalist. These are Wolf's starting point, and are a collection of illustrations full of humanity that are rare now.