Wim Wenders, Joshua and John (behind), Odessa, Texas, 1983, Lightjet Print, 125 x 170 cm, © Wim Wenders
Unlike the film maker, the photographer Wenders dispenses with modern technological means.
Düsseldorf, Germany (PRWEB) February 12, 2015
Famous movie director Wim Wenders was born in Düsseldorf like many internationally renowned contemporary artists, and he has done major fine arts work in photography – two little known facts about Wenders that a new exhibit in his hometown highlights on the occasion of his 70th birthday this year. The exhibit is titled “Wim Wenders. Landscapes. Photographs” and will open at Düsseldorf’s Museum Kunstpalast on April 18, 2015, and go through August 16, 2015 (his birthday is August 14, 1945).
Wender’s love for photography is at least as strong as his love for movies because he says “Photographic work is the other half of my life,” but there is a difference in his expression through the different media: unlike the film maker, the photographer Wenders dispenses with modern technological means. All images in the exhibit – about 80 large-scale photographs and panoramic pictures - are shot in analog photography. Many of the images feature deserted places and landscapes.
Wim Wenders is a major figure in German cinema and was nominated three times for an Academy Award, including a current Oscar 2015 nomination for his documentary “The Salt of the Earth.” The previous nominations were also for documentaries (“Buena Vista Social Club” about the Cuban music scene, and “Pina” about the choreographer Pina Bausch). Wenders received major international film awards for several of his movies, including “Paris, Texas,” “The State of Things,” and “Wings of Desire.”
For more information, visit:http://www.smkp.de/en/exhibitions/upcoming/preview-2015.html.
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