As If It Were for the Last Time
Wim Wenders-Film and Photography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4071530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Kouvaros (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-95 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0094033x-2889272 |
| OpenAlex | W2461268789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
To look at something as if it were for the last time, as if the thing looked at were disappearing: this article considers what this attitude reveals about Wim Wenders's work in film and photography. For Wenders, photography has several overlapping functions: it is a medium with its own aesthetic requirements and demands, a way to reflect on the nature of cinema, and, most challenging of all, a form of temporal experience characterized by a sense of things passing. Drawing on these functions, the article traces connections between photography and cinema to shift our understanding of Wenders's career from that of a filmmaker who also takes photographs to someone for whom the photographic image-its history and temporal implications-plays a central role in his creative practice
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Film director · Movie theater · Photography · Time travel · Visual arts · Computer Science · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |