I love this series by Michael Wolf. My friend Bob told me about it a while ago and while walking to a job downtown the other day it was on the mind as I was looking up at the skyline. I really like how these aesthetically pleasing images flirt with being creepy and voyeuristic and at the same time provide a window (whether we choose to open it or leave it closed) into the type of society we've built and where we're headed.
The awesome thing about these is the sheer sense of scale and enormity of our surroundings that you get from the images. Everything about them is larger than life and then you see a tiny person in one of the windows, and it reinforces the fact that we're all tiny fish in a huge glass fishbowl. It also makes one consider what they want seen by others, what one wants to keep hidden, and how private our private lives actually are.
Besides the conceptual side of these I think they're really stunning architectural photographs that are worth checking out for their technical merit alone. There's something about straight lines, order, and the precision it takes to create a building that's so appealing and satisfying when rendered visually, and I think these pictures do it really well.
For more awesome pictures, visit Michael Wolf's website.
