NEW YORK – Howard Greenberg Gallery is proud to announce its representation of the celebrated filmmaker and photographer Wim Wenders.
At Paris Photo at the Grand Palais Éphémère from November 9-12, 2023, Howard Greenberg Gallery will include a selection of unique vintage Cibachrome prints by Wenders, some of which have never been published nor exhibited. The works on view were made in preparation for shooting Wenders’ landmark film Paris, Texas in 1983 when he traveled the American West equipped with a 6 x 7 medium format camera searching out subjects and locations that would bring the desolate landscape to life. For several months Wenders drove the empty highways of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California, transfixed by the vastness of a country saturated with light and color and energized by the American cowboy mystique. The resulting photographic series, Written in the West, was exhibited in 1986 at the Centre Pompidou, then published as a book in 2001. Written in the West was the initial series and starting point for Wenders’ 20-year photography project Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, a nomadic journey across the globe, including Germany, Australia, Cuba, Israel, and Japan, where he sought to capture the essence of a moment, place, or space.
Howard Greenberg Gallery will present a solo exhibition of Wim Wenders photographs in collaboration with Wenders Images in September 2024.
