Wim Wenders as a photographer – exhibition in Dusseldorf – STAR

W in Wenders is best known as an award-winning director (“The Sky Above Berlin”, “Pina”) known. The “other half” of his life but is photography. The Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf shows from Saturday until August 16 in the retrospective “4 REAL & amp;.. TRUE 2. Wim Wenders landscapes photographs” about 80 large-format photographs of the 69-year-old filmmaker

Unlike the film, where he is a pioneer of digital cinema, Wenders photographed consistently analogue and not processed the images also. “As a photographer I’m behind the times,” Wenders said Thursday in Dusseldorf at the launch of the show. “I think this planet so exciting that I have nothing to invent for my part.” As a photographer, he was working completely alone and travel the world history. But he never had gone to places just because he wanted to photograph them. “I’m always on the nose and rely on my sixth sense.”

Wenders’ images often show deserted landscapes, roads and cities. Protagonists are places, not people. In the film, he’ll tell you a story in photography it was vice versa. As he let the places tell stories.

The exhibition is also a tribute to the 70th anniversary of Wenders, who was born on August 14, 1945 in Dusseldorf. In collaboration with the Foundation Wim Wenders Film Museum Dusseldorf appreciates the director with a comprehensive retrospective. From May to July are the movies Black Box of the Filmmuseum shown around 30 lesser known Wenders films.