In 2005 Michael Wolf visited Chicago for the first time to participate in a group exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Photography. As he rode an elevated train from the airport into the city, he began to envision photographing Chicago. For the previous decade, Wolf had been living and working in Hong Kong, attempting to capture the sheer density of people living on the two small islands that make up that city. Wolf examined the endless ranks of residential housing complexes in Hong Kong by removing the horizon line and flattening the space to a relentless abstraction of urban expansion. He noticed, however, that Chicago had an entirely different feel. While Hong Kong is built of endless rows of structures designed and built in a nearly identical style, Chicago has more experimental, unique buildings of many different styles. 

The present catalogue, published on the occasion of Wolf's solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, features Wolf's photographs of the Chicago cityscape. With introduction by Natasha Egan, essay by Geoff Manaugh and Wolf's biography.