Michael Wolf: Bottrop-ebel 76

by Michael Wolf

Having a passionate curiosity about people, German artist and photographer Michael Wolf began his career as a photojournalist. For his final exam as a student, Wolf submitted a series of photographs taken in the coal mining town of Bottrop-Ebel, located in Germany s Ruhr District, over the course of continuous visits he made to the area in 1976. In the various images of the town s inhabitants and their everyday lives celebrating, socialising, playing, working he captures not only a sense of normalcy, but also the region s gradual economic decline, already pervasive just under the surface. Features more than 100 pages of photos and an epilogue by Sigrid Schneider.

144 pages, Hardcover

Published January 10, 2012

About the author

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Michael Wolf has lived in Hong Kong for eight years and works as a photographer for Stern. He collects posters and photographs from the period of the Cultural Revolution till today.