Written in the West, Revisited is a collection of photographs by the director Wim Wenders, shot across the American Southwest in 1983 during the location scouting for Wender’s 1984 film, Paris Texas. He primarily works with color and landscape of American West compositions. For this project, he used Fuji 6x4.5 camera as well as Plaubel Makina 6×7.
First image explores red and green complementary colors. Because
of three stores are sitting right next to each other, and the middle building is
painted with bright colors, it immediately takes viewer attention. The second
shot presents absolute stillness and the old man figure seems to be more like a
part of the landscape than human being. Peeling off old sign on the wall brings
us back to the past like a time-machine. Third picture is based on contrast of
bright blue and red colors, and cloudy dark sky helps to emphasize on central
still composition.
I really enjoy Wenders works because he has got a great
ability to “freeze” or preserve the context of the image. Besides, I personally
like to observe old signs of the wall, to learn how they are designed and those
detailed photographs allow me to do it.
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