Wenders: photographer of landscapes

A unique visual diary is on show in Rome until the end of August – around sixty photographs, taken all over the world by Wim Wenders fill the walls at the Scuderie del Quirinale.

A unique visual diary is on show in Rome until the end of August – around sixty photographs, taken all over the world by Wim Wenders (some as big as five metres) fill the walls at the Scuderie del Quirinale. The first and only showing in Europe, the collection presents almost all the photos taken by the German film director in over twenty years, starting in 1983 when he spent months photographing the desert to find locations for “Paris Texas”. Refined snapshots and clips rather that the narrative to a complete story, his pictures describe endless landscapes, deserts, mountans, the fronts of houses in Havana, Berlin and Jerusalem.

As the title suggests, the exhibition offers a snapshot of planet earth, captured by a “photographer of landscapers” as Wenders describes himself, because “landscapes have stories to tell and are much more than just places. In a film places have to play a secondary role with respect to the story and the characters. In photographs I can give them a central role”. E.S.

Until 27.8.2006
Wim Wenders. Immagini dal pianeta terra
Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma
http://www.scuderiequirinale.it

Wenders: photographer of landscapes

A unique visual diary is on show in Rome until the end of August – around sixty photographs, taken all over the world by Wim Wenders fill the walls at the Scuderie del Quirinale.

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