About the photographer and filmmaker Wim WENDERS (*1945 in Düsseldorf)

Together with other auteur filmmakers of the New German Cinema, he founded the Filmverlag der Autoren in 1971. With films such as 'Paris, Texas' and 'Der Himmel über Berlin', he achieved worldwide fame from the 1980s onwards. He sees himself as 'the traveler and then the director or photographer'. From 1991 to 1996, he was Chairman of the European Film Academy and has been its President since then until the end of 2020. He was also Professor of Film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 2002 to 2017. His photographs have been shown in exhibitions in Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, Bilbao, Sydney, Shanghai, Rome, São Paulo, Moscow, Copenhagen, New York and Düsseldorf.

Photo books by and with works by Wim WENDERS

  • 'Written in the West. Photographs from the American West' (1987); 'Images from the Surface of the Earth' (2001); 'Einmal/Once' (2005, 2015) 'Places, Strange and Quiet' (2011); 'Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception' (2013); '4 Real & True 2. Wim Wenders. Landscapes. Photographies' (2015); 'Sofort Bilder/Instant Stories. 403 Polaroids with 36 Stories' (2017, 2021); 'Polaroids' (2018); 

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The German-language text volume 'About my artists' contains speeches, lectures, texts about German and international photographers, artists, friends, books and works on the 75th birthday of the publisher's founder and director Lothar Schirmer.
19,80 € * Weight 0.6 kg
SIGNED! 'Reden wir über Fotografie" (Let's talk about photography) is a collection of essays and interviews by photo historian Hans-Michael Koetzle. He accompanies us on amazing paths through the history & present of photography, an alway in flux medium.
29,80 € * Weight 0.4 kg
In this photo book, the pictures are not thematic, but arranged according to stories - interwoven with their own stories. 'Sofort Bilder' is a photographic road movie through the early years of the artist, who quickly became world famous for his films.
29,80 € * Weight 2.1 kg
The out-of-print photographic volume 'Places, Strange and Quiet' by German photographer and filmmaker Wim WENDERS presents the entire spectrum of his photographic work, from his outdoor shots and buildings to panoramic views.
39,80 € * Weight 0.4 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 22 cm., 280 pp., color ills., English
0,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Exhibitions (a selection)
  • 2001: 'Bilder von der Oberfläche der Erde / Pictures from the Surface of the Earth', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin;
    2010: 'Places, strange and quiet', Museu de Arte de São Paulo;
    2012: 'Places, strange and quiet', Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg;
    2013: 'Photographs', Fundación Sorigué, Lleida (ES);
    2014: 'Places, strange and quiet', Kunstforeningen, GL Strand, Copenhagen;
    2015: 'America'; Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, Varese (IT); '4Real & True2. Wim Wenders. Photographs. Landscapes', Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; 'time capsules. by the side of the road', BlainSouthern, Berlin; 'In broad daylight even the sounds shine', Reservatório da Mãe d'Água das Amoreiras, Lisbon;
    2016: 'The space between the people can carry the ceiling', Ivo Wessel Collection, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen;
    2017: 'Instant Stories'; The Photographers' Gallery, London;
    2018: 'Early Works 1964-1984', Blain|Southern, London; 'Leiko Ikemura in Dialogue with Donata and Wim Wenders', Stiftung Brandenburger Tor/ Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin; 'Sofort Bilder', C/O Berlin, Berlin;
    2019: 'Early Photography 60s-80s', Filmarchiv Austria at Metro Kino Kulturhaus, Vienna; '(E)Motion. Installation Cinématographique Monumentale', Grand Palais, Paris;
    2023: 'Two or three things I know about Edward Hopper', Galerie Bastian, Berlin;