Don't Come Knocking, by Wim Wenders

[rosuna]

Hello,

Wenders used to use (japanese) medium format cameras, but the still pictures of his film "Don't Come Knocking" are made with Leica equipment:

Don't Come Knocking - A Wim Wenders Film

It is a good promotion for Leica, isn't?

Don't Come Knocking - Still Photos

[davephoto]

wim has made a couple of my favorite movies: paris, texas and until the end of the world. the latter had a stellar soundtrack featuring some of the best musical talent around in the early '90s. i'm certainly happy to read that his wife is a fan of leica, even if i'm unfamiliar with her work as a photographer.

[derek_stanton]

Donata Wenders' photography:

Donata Wenders

[mat_mcdermott]

Wenders has had a number of exhibitions of his work in the United States and has at least one book of his photos in print: "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth".

He's a very strange filmmaker for me. He has made some of my favourite films "Paris, Texas", "Wings of Desire" and "Notebook on Cities and Clothes" but has also made some truly woeful bits of cinema such as "The End of Violence". I don't understand how sometimes he can make such distinctive, memorably good films but then other times miss so horrendously.

His writings about film are also very much worth reading if you get a chance.

[strick]

Try also Wenders' book "Written in the West" - a preparation for "Paris, Texas", so to speak -, a quite beautiful collection of photos in the tradition of Shore and Eggleston.

For his trip through the American West Wenders preferred to use a Plaubel Makina 6x7 instead of a Leica:

"The Leica was there to search for material, the Makina was pleasure. With the Leica I had the feeling that I was involved with the landscape or things in a work situation, and at times even felt I was exploiting them. On a few occasions when I was taking work photos with the Leica, I told myself that I owed the place in question an altogether different kind of respect and that I ought to take another photo with the Makina." (op.cit., p. 9)

Greg

[overgaardcom]

These by Donata Wenders are outstanding. Can't fitn out if it's her style at the time or it's the combination og her, the cast and her husband, Wim Wenders, light and setup

[earleygallery]

I've been to a couple of exhibitions of his photographs, usually printed to enormous sizes and many in panoramic format. I like his style of Street photography.

[franklinh]

Thank you for this thread. I motivated me to order the DVD just now from Amazon. They have a release date of August 8, 2006.

[Findus]

Originally Posted by overgaardcom

These by Donata Wenders are outstanding. Can't fitn out if it's her style at the time or it's the combination og her, the cast and her husband, Wim Wenders, light and setup

So other than having phtotgraphed a bunch of well known people what is so outstanding about these pictures, they are ok, but outstanding ... nah.....

[overgaardcom]

Oh, I kind of agree with you.

What I meant was that these were outstanding and I couldn't figure out - compared with her other photos - if these stand out because it's the set light and arangements, a technique used at that time - or whatever, But these from THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL set are outstanding:

Donata Wenders

(forgot the link because I was told there was food. Doesn't happen that often).

Oh well, look at this single shot: Donata Wenders

[derek_stanton]

I prefer this type of work by Donata:
Donata Wenders
(Gallery > Permanent Collection)

Especially this:
Donata Wenders

This:
Donata Wenders

And this:
Photography Monika Mohr Galerie

[davephoto]

derek, thank you for the links. there are a couple which I like quite a bit, particularly, 'mass' and 'the prayer' from room 6 of her permanent collection. others were processed to the point where they look more like paintings than photos which I find less appealing.