Wim Wenders : instant stories : 403 Polaroids with 36 stories / Wim Wenders ; and with a contribution of seven photographs by Annie Leibovitz.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2017Copyright date: �2017Description: 315 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0500544786
- 9780500544785
- Instant stories
- 770.92 WEN 23
- TR655 .W464 2017
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As well as being an acclaimed filmmaker and a member of the New German Cinema movement, Wim Wenders (b. 1945) has also made an international name for himself as a photographer, with shows all over the world. While previous exhibitions have focused on his large-format colour photography, he now opens a treasure chest of Polaroids taken during the 1970s and 1980s, to accompany an exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery, London. Here are portraits of friends, actors and personal heroes; souvenirs of places and events from the life of a young travelling filmmaker; impressions of his first trips to the US, shots of movie icons on American TV screens, the cinemas of provincial Germany in the 1970s, and much more. The adventure of shooting films around the world becomes an almanac of adventure, curiosity and tranquillity. Wenders's instant photographs are interwoven with his own stories, memories and flights of fancy that weave the images into an intimate and poetic journey. Instant Stories is a photographic road movie of the director's early years, as he rose to global fame with films such as The Scarlet Letter, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, Kings of the Road, and The American Friend.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Wim Wenders: instant stories", held at the Photographers' Gallery, London, 20 October 2017 - 11 February 2018.
Wim Wenders, distinguished filmmaker and co-founder of the New German Cinema, is also a world-renowed photographer. He has exhibited his large format, panoramic photographs in Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, Bilbao, Moscow and Copenhagen. Taken during the 1970's and 1980's, from the time of such films as 'The American Friends', 'Paris, Texas' and 'Wings of Desire', the polaroids reveal friends, actors and personal heroes, objects, places and situations from the everyday life of the travelling filmmaker.