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Michael Wolf is known for capturing the hyper-density of cities, such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and Chicago in his large-scale photographs of high-rise architecture and intimate studies of the lives of city dwellers. Michael Wolf’s work on life in cities was always driven by a profound concern for the people living in these environments and for the consequences of massive urbanization on contemporary civilization. This commitment and engagement remained central throughout his career, first as a photojournalist and then as an artist.

MICHAEL WOLF

EUGENE ATGET

Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience.

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

In 1997, Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) began a series of photographs of significant works of modernist architecture, intending "to trace the beginnings of our age via architecture." One of the hallmarks of Sugimoto's work is his technical mastery of the medium. He makes photographs exclusively with an 8 x 10" view camera, and his silver gelatin prints are renowned for their tonal range, total lack of grain, wealth of detail and overall optical precision.

Not only depicting large structures though, Gursky also chooses to sometimes focus on non-heroic parts of buildings such as floors, lights, ceilings and more mundane objects; creating patterns and semi-abstract images; both of these styles of architectural photography result in breathtaking, provoking and at times ...

ANDREAS GURSKY

HELENE BINET

Hélène Binet (born 1959) is a Swiss-French architectural photographer based in London, who is also one of the leading architectural photographers in the world.[1][2] She is most known for her work with architects Daniel Libeskind, Peter Zumthor and Zaha Hadid, and has published books on works of several architects.

Naoya hatakoeyama

Naoya Hatakeyama is one of the most important Japanese photographic artists of the present day. His work focuses on the interplay between nature and civilisation. From the mid-1980s onwards, Hatakeyama has been creating major photo series showing locations and landscapes that have been shaped by industrialisation and urbanisation. These places developed in an unstructured way; they are nature, created from stone. Limestone quarries and quarry blasts, factory buildings, views of cities, or the underground tunnels of Tokyo's sewerage system—Hatakeyama’s photographs document a natural world, created by humans, but where humans are no longer present. For Hatakeyama, nature does not come to an end. He shows the permanent metamorphosis of its form. Nature is a totality to which all changes in the world are subject. The transformation of nature begins when millennia-old rock is blasted apart and continues when this rock is processed, leading finally to its use as a building material. Thus, Hatekeyama regards quarries and cities as the negative and positive of the same subject.

nature and city
extraction and construction
light and composition
transformation and change

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BERRENICE ABBOT

Berenice Alice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.