Michael Wolf
Paris Rooftops Box Set
2025
12 Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle PhotoRag Bright White
Each 15 x 20 in. on 16.5 x 22.6 in. sheet
Before his passing, Michael had produced and circulated a set of twelve hand-selected viewing prints for this project. As part of our work to reorganise and catalogue his archive, we uncovered his final specifications for the edition. In keeping with the Estate’s commitment to honouring his vision, as with the posthumous Paris book, we are now making this work available for collectors in the form he originally intended.
About Paris Rooftops
Having established himself through his distinctive visual language in Hong Kong, Michael later set up his second home in Paris. Confronted with Haussmannian order and the weight of the city’s photographic tradition, he sought a new vantage point. The result was Paris Rooftops: a pivotal body of work revealing a hidden, geometric poetry above the boulevards. Following in the tradition of Atget — whom Berenice Abbott described as weaving a “tapestry of French civilisation” — Michael uncovered an abstract vocabulary of zinc roofs, chimneys and stone walls. Compressed into painterly layers, these compositions recall Fernand Léger’s Les Toits de Paris and Morandi’s still lifes, transforming functional structures into lyrical forms.
Presentation & Protection:
Size of Linen Box 18.3 x 24.6 x 1.57 inches
Photographs unmatted, individually protected in acid-free slip foils
Housed in a custom grey-linen box
