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...exhibit’s focus on the expansive horizon, the sharp contrast between the sky and the ground and the striking features of the land makes each photograph an extraordinary tableau to behold. For most people, the obvious interest in the exhibition is the relationship between Wenders’s cinematic and photographic works. But Melissa Davenport, who worked on this exhibition for the Carpenter Center, explains that it has the potential to appeal to a wider audience...
...photographs were taken with a Japanese Art Panorama camera, a replacement for Wenders’s stolen Russian Horizon camera. The Art Panorama, however, was extremely heavy, and the Aboriginals with whom Wenders traveled gave him the name “the madman with the camera.” Wenders defended his choice of cameras in the companion book to the exhibition, Wim Wenders: Photos...
...other camera was out of the question. The horizon was so far and so perfectly straight, and the view so unlimited that only the 2.3 x 6.7 inch negative format seemed suitable to render a true reproduction of it all,” he writes...
Indeed, the photographs are focused not only on the dramatic presence of the horizon, but also on the things that interrupted that perfectly straight line...
Wenders writes, “No matter how far the horizon, it was the things in the foreground, every rock and every shrub, that became important to me... In the course of taking these pictures I, the photographer, became totally transparent as a subject...