Wim Wenders Pictures from the Surface of the Earth

Globetrotting filmmaker Wim Wenders takes his old panorama camera with him, using it whenever the sheer wealth of what he sees and the impression it leaves on him breaks the normal scale of things. Infinite landscapes, endless horizons, deserts, and mountain ranges overwhelm by their emptiness and silence, street fronts in Havana, Houston, Berlin, or Jerusalem offer deep insights into the shallows of civilization. Wenders' photographs are pictures of a world almost devoid of humans, a natural or manmade world viewed from a distance. They shed light on the many guises the surface on the earth dons and attest to Wenders' contemplative and amazed gaze. This gaze, of course, didn't stop at September 11 and delivered haunting photos of Ground Zero taken shortly after the attack. The book is both a portrait of the world as encountered by the photographer and a portrait of the world as encountered by the photographer and a portrait of the potographer as reflected in his vision of the world.Wim Wenders Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, with ISBN 9783829602389 and ISBN 3829602383.