Michael Wolf - Bottrop-Ebel 76 (SLIPCASE, MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2012

GREAT OPPORTUNITY to purchase this VERY SCARCE, VERY SOUGHT-AFTER PHOTOBOOK by Michael Wolf
about German city Bottrop - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE.

New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil (never opened).
COLLECTOR'S COPY.

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A WONDERFUL, EMPHATHIC PHOTO SERIES Michael Wolf shot as a student, long long time before his big success.

'Bottrop-Ebel 76' is a grandiose study of the miners' milieu in the Ruhr region at a time when structural change was already setting in. At the same time, and even more so, it is an epic about life itself, which makes it possible to empathise in an exemplary way with what moves and drives people of different generations, alone and in community.'
(Hannes Wanderer, publisher, Peperoni Books)

Michael Wolf became worldwide famous through 'Tokyo Compression' (Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 3, page 131; Photoirland Festival 2011, 30 most important photobook titles of the decade).

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Peperoni Books, Berlin. 2012. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with slipcase. 300 x 240 mm. 144 pages. 87 Tritone and 15 color illustrations. Photos: Michael Wolf. Edited by Hannes Wanderer. Text: Sigrid Schneider. Text in German and English.

Excellent German photobook, complete with the original slipcase - in perfect condition.

'The photo book 'Bottrop-Ebel 76' with photographs by Michael Wolf was certainly a very different story when it was published than the previously known works about 'life in megacities'. As a student, Michael Wolf photographed the series in 1976 in the small miners' settlement in the Ruhr region and submitted it for his exams with Otto Steinert at the Folkwangschule in Essen, at that time as a classic social documentary strictly sorted according to categories such as 'building fabric', 'young people', 'working population' or 'festivals and clubs'. With the distance of more than 35 years, the work has now been re-sifted and compiled for the book much more freely than the systematically laid out examination paper.
Michael Wolf's inquisitive, compassionate gaze aims at the milieu and hits right at the heart. When a little girl with a school bag is scolded by her father because she does not line up for the photographer as he wishes, when young people ride their mopeds to the outskirts of town to drink beer and try out approaches to the opposite sex, when a shot of schnapps is taken in the street in the nightclub thread before a ride into the blue, or when an old couple in everyday clothes and slippers dances a melancholy waltz in the clubhouse, my breath catches in the face of the physically palpable emotional intensity.'
(Hannes Wanderer, publisher, Peperoni Books)