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Pictures from the Surface of the Earth

2 reviews
Peter-Klaus Schuster

Schirmer/Mosel, 2006

Couldn't resist the 5 Star rating...
I was tempted to give this a 4 Star rating due to being spoiled by Wim Wender's book "Once" - it is the text associated with the photos that really makes that book ("Once") an absolute masterpiece. But, right as I started to go for the 4, I considered the photographs themselves. Wim has such a great eye and can convey such loneliness and singular isolation from within the frame of something ...

Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography After the Revolution

5 reviews
Tim B. Wride, Cristina Vives, ...

Lacma, 2001

PHOTOGRAPHS THAT SPEAK A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Explaining his concept for this absorbing collection of black and white photographs, Tim B. Wride, author and Los Angeles County Museum of Art Associate Curator of Photography, said "Shifting Tides" is intended to "expand the common perception of what Cuban photography is generally thought to be. That is, black-and-white, documentary reportage with a hint of magic realism, and replete with ...

Wim Wenders: Once

5 reviews
Wim Wenders

D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel, 2001

one of the best photography books i've ever bought!
this book is great. Wim Wender's opening prose about the art of photography is worth the price alone. delve into the book further, and you are gifted with some really great travel documentary photographs with short prose describing the images. i like this, as a photographer, i am often very interested to hear the story behind the photographs. the art of the slide show presentation is a lost art ...

Ghost Towns of the American West

4 reviews
Mario Kaiser, Michael Koetzle, ...

Harry N. Abrams, 2003

great godfrey - ghosts are beautiful after all.
Having been to many of the places described here with my camera, I can only say the photos are stunning....and anyone who doesnt think the western sky can be that blue needs to go to a few of these places in the spring or fall when the sky is clear. While Bodie is my favorite, a lot of others such as Silver City Idaho get less attention. It's also sad to note that many of the unprotected ...

Where Europe Begins (New Directions Paperbook)

4 reviews
Yoko Tawada

New Directions, 2007

FANTASTIC!!!
Don't listen to the Jerseyite who wrote the two-star review. Pick up this book and you'll want to carry it around forever. Very unusual, Tawada is at the forefront of experimenting with the short story form. Like the paintings of Leonora Carrington, these stories offer us a fresh way of thinking about the world. I won't ruin with plot details, but the title story that takes place on a train is ...

Isabella Rossellini: Looking At Me: On Pictures and Photographs

1 review
Peter Lindbergh, Bruce Weber, ...

Schirmer/Mosel, 2002

Excellent and Engaging
This is a fabulous book, the type that you can sit with for hours and enjoy. It is reminiscent of Sante D'Orazio's first book, but on a much simpler scale. The photos are great, the commentary a little bare-bones but interesting. As a photographer, it's also interesting to see how different photographers have captured the same subject, sometimes more than once. Highly recommended and nicely ...

Wim Wenders: On Film: Essays and Conversations
Wenders Wim

Faber & Faber, 2001

A volume that combines three influential works on the cinema by Wim Wenders, one of the major international filmmakers of our time Wim Wenders's body of work is among the most extraordinary in modern cinema. It includes such films as Paris, Texas ; Wings of Desire ; Buena Vista Social Club ; and The Million Dollar Hotel . Fortunately, his passion for cinema also extends to writing about it, and in this volume all his published essays on ...

Peter Lindbergh: Stories

2 reviews
Peter Lindbergh

Arena Editions, 2002

Not what I expected
I was a bit disappointed by this book. I am a huge fan of Lindbergh and have followed his work for years in various magazines. I have all books; I can say that I am VERY familiar with his work. I thought this book was going to be a more of "behind the scenes". It's not. It does have out takes, Polaroid's, and a collage of written letters that are mostly eligible. I had hope there word be some ...

The Heart Is a Sleeping Beauty: The Million Dollar Hotel-A Film Book

1 review
Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders

Te Neues Publishing Company, 2000

Wenders never ceases to amaze
I am fairly new to the Wenders world, his school of life and wings. The movie and the book are beautiful. Cinematoraphy/photography tightened into the form of a man's luminescent imagination.

My Time With Antonioni: The Diary of an Extraordinary Experience

2 reviews
Wim Wenders

Faber & Faber, 2000

On psychology of movie making
I enjoyed reading WW diary primarily for the insights to the personal struggles of the director working with somebody who is his master. Book is full of slight and not-so-slight overtones on the relationship between two men; sadness at the realization that "Beyond the Clouds" in all probability will be Antonioni's last movie; impossibility of filling in the personal artistic content for the other ...

Der Himmel Ueber Berlin / Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders, Handke

Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998

The Dark Page
Samuel Fuller, Wim Wenders

Kingly Books, 2007

Buena Vista Social Club

6 reviews
Donata Wenders, Wim Wenders

Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2000

A photo album that depicts the key moments in the movie
I recently saw the movie Buena Vista Social Club for the first time and I liked it so much that I wanted to learn more about it. That's why I ordered this book. At first, I was a little disappointed when I received the book and found out that some of the images were low-resolution digital scans. However, after reviewing the book as a whole, I really got to like it. There are quite a few large ...

Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema (Directors on Directors Series)
Wim Wenders, Shaun Whiteside, ...

Faber & Faber, 1991

The Heart Is a Sleeping Beauty: the Million Dollar Hotel Filmbook
Wim Wenders

Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH, 2001

Wim Wenders: Written in the West (Schirmer Art Books)

3 reviews
Alain Bergala, Wim Wenders

Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh, 2008

Up front America
I suppose it was only to be expected that filmmaker Wim Wenders would have an eye for composing a good photo. This book of sixty-two, originally published in 1987, is thankfully still in print. They were taken in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas while Wenders was looking for locations for his movie 'Paris, Texas'. Predictably they show a European notion of America so most of them ...

The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations

1 review
Wim Wenders

Faber & Faber, 1992

King of the Road
This slim, but fascinating book, is not entirely only accessible to fans of the cinema of Wim Wenders. It certainly fills that requirement with a number of essays detailing the making of a number of his films, his inspirations and the industrial and creative difficulties befalling an artist in the 1970's and 1980's, the most fascinating of which is the trials and tribulations endured with the ...

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