July 14th 2015
Places, Strange and Quiet
It was while shooting his breakthrough 1984 film Paris, Texas that landmark German director Wim Wenders first felt compelled to take up photography; 27 years later, a penchant for documenting his films’ environs has fostered a canon of sparse panoramic landscapes.
The series Places, Strange and Quiet, presents 40 of Wenders’s large-scale images – happened upon by chance, and each imbued with a feeling of profound solitude – spanning from 1983 to 2011 and the product of an artistic method the filmmaker sums up as “turning left at junctions where others turn right,”.
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