Wim Wenders: Written in the West, Revisited - Hardcover

(Written in the West, Revisited) evokes desolate scenes in vibrant color, creating images that simultaneously suggest narrative and cancel it out... This volume serves as a welcome reminder of Wenders' prodigious talents.--Jeff Jackson "Fanzine "

This is a book of pictures about light and space; it is refreshing to see how simple, direct and enjoyable photography for the sake of photography can be.--Tom Leininger "Photo-Eye Blog "

a peaceful book full of still images--Owen Campbell "American Suburb X "

it is enigmatically, exquisitely shot, nearly perfect in its longing--Rebecca Bengal "vogue.com "

Titled Written in the West, the images demonstrate the same fascination with the area's vibrant, light saturated vistas and vast expanses of wild landscape as the film itself, and make for compelling viewing both as a supplement to the film and in their own right.--Alex Taylor "AnOther Magazine "

In late 1983, looking for the subjects and locations that would bring the desolate landscape of the American West to life for his iconic film Paris, Texas, German filmmaker Wim Wenders took his Makina Plaubel 6 x 7 camera on the road. Driving through Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California, Wenders was captivated by the unique, saturated, colorful light of the vast, wild landscape of the American West--even in the 20th century, a land associated with cowboys and outlaws, and suffused with the mythology of the frontier. The series he produced, Written in the West, was first exhibited in 1986 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and first published in 2000.
Roughly three decades later, in this expanded edition, Wenders adds 15 new images of the sleepy town that gave the movie its name--though no footage was ever actually shot there. Made with a Fuji 6 x 4.5 camera, the new photographs are poetic documents of an abiding fascination and a search for personal memories. Together, they add an essential new chapter to Wenders' classic Written in the West, now Revisited.
Over the past four decades, through films like Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), Buena Vista Social Club (1999) and Pina (2011), Wim Wenders (born 1945) has distinguished himself as one of the leading lights of New German Cinema and one of the great directors in contemporary film. Wenders has had an equally distinguished career in photography; his photographs are exhibited and collected internationally.