WIM WENDERS/ WRITTEN IN THE WEST, REVISITED

In late 1983, looking for the subjects and locations that would bring the desolate landscape of the American West to life for his ic onic film Paris, Texas, German filmmaker Wim Wenders took his Makina Plaubel 6 x 7 camera on the road. Driving through Texas, Arizon a, New Mexico and California, Wenders was captivated by the unique, saturated, colorful light of the vast, wild landscape of the Ame rican West--even in the 20th century, a land associated with cowboys and outlaws, and suffused with the mythology of the frontier. T he serie...[Read more]