Thank you all so much for watching everyone, appreciate the support over the course of this year, wishing you all a great year ahead. Other recently published videos include: *10 Movies All Photographers Should Watch (Part 2)* ua-cam.com/video/871Gucy_ZxU/v-deo.htmlsi=-ArHCLthHrpYcuo_ *Meet One of Britain's Most Influential Photographers* ua-cam.com/video/yA27BtOOkYU/v-deo.html *This Photographer Will Change the Way You Shoot!* ua-cam.com/video/0-trc5ENYpw/v-deo.html
Excellent video. Wenders' ability to capture moods with color and composition is always worth exploring. I would also recommend his photo book "Written In The West" which features gorgeous, medium format studies for "Paris, Texas."
Ahaha! Honestly it was a lot of work, thank you so much for watching Chris and for your support on the videos during the course of this year. I really appreciate it!
You mentioned time and place, the isolation and disconnectedness of people, the impermanence of situations and memory. Wim Wenders grew up in Europe, a place of deep traditions, but at a time when a two wars in 20 years had destroyed much of what had lasted for centuries; and if it wasn’t enough that ideas had been challenging the existing social order for the few centuries before this, finally the ideas became ideologies and the war of words simply became war. Places like America and my country Australia didn’t experience these wars in the same way that Europe and even Asia did. We participated in the fight and sacrificed many lives and although we came extremely close in Australia, the fight never really came to our soil. America is a couple of hundred years older than Australia but compared to the rest of the world, except for the indigenous people there is no deep culture stemming from the place we live. We brought our culture with us. And even though you could say all culture is more or less manufactured. We make up stories to explain where we came from, where we are going; provide examples of virtue and villainy, and rules to maintain peace and stability. But the myths of the old cultures of the world are not the myths that sustain the modern world. Even if we feel attachment to ancient traditions and values, our lives have been transformed by our technology and what sustains us is convenience, speed, the increased portability of lives and corresponding impermanence of relationships outside the family unit. In Paris Texas, Travis sees his wife in the cute but fake little cottage with his wife; she sees the peeling insulation framing the window that she can’t see through. It is fake but more than anything it is banal. And Andy Warhol made that soulless banality famous. So I think Wim Wenders is at war with banality, the replacement of what is truly precious, with a seedy and shallow approximation. But the soul isn’t destroyed, just seeking what has been taken away and hidden. There’s my first contribution to 2025. Hope it goes well for you and all who watch your channel.
Great overview, Tatiana! Salt of the Earth is one of my favourites (Salgado is a huge inspiration to me, and I made a video all about his work a while ago too). I'd also massively recommend Perfect Days, a film that perfectly rebuts the modern over-reliance on dialogue in favour of beautiful visual storytelling. :)
Love your channel Tatiana! In the future, it'd be cool to see some videos about the younger generation of magnum photographers, such as Bieke Depoorter, Olivia Arthur, Lua Ribeira, Greg Halpern, Peter Van Agtmael, Sorab Hura etc..
Wim Wenders definitely had to be one of my favourite directors ever... Also, this reminds me you should also make a video on his long-time collaborator and my favourite cinematographer oat, late Robby Müller ❤️
Just rewatched a 4k restoration of Paris Texas on the big screen for it's 40th Anniversary. So I really appreciated this video as a follow up. I was thinking how his frames were so picturesque and it reminded me of Philip-Lorca diCorcia's work. Oh and also Salt of the Earth is one of my favourite documentaries of all time!
Lucky you , would love to see it on the big screen again. I'll have to nudge our local cinema, they recently showed Kubrick's 2001 so maybe I can convince them to show one of the greatest films of all time.
Tatiana, thanks so much for the many hours of entertainment and education over this year (and previously!). Yours is way up towards the top of the pile of excellent photography channels on UA-cam ( if not the top!). All the best for the new year 2025. ❤
Great video Tatiana. I hope all goes well for you in the new year and what a great finish, one of my favourite filmmakers, Wim Wenders! Loved his book but certainly not getting it in German eheh
Another great video. Fascinating to follow your escapades into the photographic landscape. What matter is where I point my camera. That determines the final result and that is what photography is all about - the images...
I wouldn't complain if every video you ever made was about Wim Wenders. I was studying Cinema in Quebec City when Paris Texas came out, me and friend went to see it four times in the theater. It is far one of the greatest influence on me as a photographer especially that I now find myself in middle America, a European in the middle of Americana. Love the polaroids. I might have to get the German version and just enjoy the images - the english version isn't available or is 10 times the price. Have you watched Jean-Jacques Beineix' Diva yet, I'll keep bugging you about it, LOL. Happy New Year, thanks for all your inspiration.
Great video, thanks! There's an exhibition of Wenders' photography in the Bundeskunsthalle in Germany next August in honor of his 80th birthday and I'm very excited to visit it.
Nice video as always Tatiana! It so true about the nostalgic quality of Polaroids. I still have my dad's old Kodak EK4 instant camera, too bad they don't make the film for it anymore, it would be fun to use it again as it was the first camera I used as a child. Perfect Days is another great film by Wenders. All the best in 2025!!
I really enjoyed this video, and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for making thought-provoking pieces on photographers and photography. Your authenticity is apparent. I'm thankful that there exists a channel on UA-cam that isn't dedicated to trying to market gear to me. Looking forward to seeing your 2025 films. All my best to you and your family. Happy New Year!
Thank you so much Christopher, I really appreciate your feedback and well wishes, I wish you the best too in 2025 for you and your loved ones. Looking forward to bring out more content in 2025!
I bought the Curzon box set of Wim's collected works and it came with one of his polaroids! Love the book too (but my copy is in English thank goodness 🙂)
Hello Tatiana. Much of the perspectives, frames and photographic treatment for WW's films lays in the hands of Robbie Mueller, WW's director of photography throughout the years. RM really made great polaroids, much of the time used for locations/lighting information pre shooting.. RMs skilled eye and hands certainly impressed themselves upon WW from very early on. Perhaps take at look at RMs own collection of polaroids. Blessings for the NY.
That’s correct, I actually uncovered his Polaroids whilst preparing this video and was planning on making another video about it. Thanks for watching and commenting!
You need to do one on Robby Müller the cinematographer who did most of Wim Wenders movies. There’s an entire documentary on UA-cam called living the light that everyone should check out. Wims great but Robby is the real master behind the visuals in his movies
It's only been in the past few years that I've become aware of Polaroids being used for "serious" photography. I'd always thought of them as just being used for casual snapshots. Maybe I was living under a rock!
I think it was a natural progression actually, I personally love the format of instant photography and I really like the idea of it being a different way of capturing and representing space and time!
if you're American, I can understand it's not easy from your to digest a so specifically European cinematic artist, who specifically wants his audience to be 'inside' the time and stories of his movies. Very special, indeed.
@vidvoodoo I am a German 🙂. I watch movies from everywhere Korea, Japan, Russia, India also in the original....I find him and his movies just boring, emotionless and contentless
My daughter lives in London and I live in the State’s and she always gives me photography books she gave me the 80s photographing Britain by the Tate museum and found Keith Amatt Miss Grace’s lane wish I could see the prints
Oh my gosh I recently watched a documentary on Die Antwoord and they explained how they worked with Roger Ballen even for certain music videos and I thought what a great video I could make from this ahah!
Why would someone like Wenders just use Polaroids and stay with it through decades, never change to a 35mm SLR or rangefinder? Is the root the use of Polaroids to judge the lights etc. in a film scene, where you need the immediacy of Polaroids? Very contrary to most people’s tendency to get new gear all the time or to be negatively obsessed with the limitations of what they are using.
Thank you for letting me know that you "would call Wim Wenders an artist". It certainly makes Wim happy that he gets your recognition. Dear Ms Hopper, really?
Thank you all so much for watching everyone, appreciate the support over the course of this year, wishing you all a great year ahead. Other recently published videos include:
*10 Movies All Photographers Should Watch (Part 2)*
ua-cam.com/video/871Gucy_ZxU/v-deo.htmlsi=-ArHCLthHrpYcuo_
*Meet One of Britain's Most Influential Photographers*
ua-cam.com/video/yA27BtOOkYU/v-deo.html
*This Photographer Will Change the Way You Shoot!*
ua-cam.com/video/0-trc5ENYpw/v-deo.html
Happy 2025!
Excellent video. Wenders' ability to capture moods with color and composition is always worth exploring. I would also recommend his photo book "Written In The West" which features gorgeous, medium format studies for "Paris, Texas."
Thank you Simon, will check that book out, appreciate you for watching and the suggestion!
"Intimate portraits of spaces..."
Ahaha! Honestly it was a lot of work, thank you so much for watching Chris and for your support on the videos during the course of this year. I really appreciate it!
You mentioned time and place, the isolation and disconnectedness of people, the impermanence of situations and memory. Wim Wenders grew up in Europe, a place of deep traditions, but at a time when a two wars in 20 years had destroyed much of what had lasted for centuries; and if it wasn’t enough that ideas had been challenging the existing social order for the few centuries before this, finally the ideas became ideologies and the war of words simply became war. Places like America and my country Australia didn’t experience these wars in the same way that Europe and even Asia did. We participated in the fight and sacrificed many lives and although we came extremely close in Australia, the fight never really came to our soil. America is a couple of hundred years older than Australia but compared to the rest of the world, except for the indigenous people there is no deep culture stemming from the place we live. We brought our culture with us. And even though you could say all culture is more or less manufactured. We make up stories to explain where we came from, where we are going; provide examples of virtue and villainy, and rules to maintain peace and stability. But the myths of the old cultures of the world are not the myths that sustain the modern world. Even if we feel attachment to ancient traditions and values, our lives have been transformed by our technology and what sustains us is convenience, speed, the increased portability of lives and corresponding impermanence of relationships outside the family unit. In Paris Texas, Travis sees his wife in the cute but fake little cottage with his wife; she sees the peeling insulation framing the window that she can’t see through. It is fake but more than anything it is banal. And Andy Warhol made that soulless banality famous. So I think Wim Wenders is at war with banality, the replacement of what is truly precious, with a seedy and shallow approximation. But the soul isn’t destroyed, just seeking what has been taken away and hidden. There’s my first contribution to 2025. Hope it goes well for you and all who watch your channel.
Great overview, Tatiana! Salt of the Earth is one of my favourites (Salgado is a huge inspiration to me, and I made a video all about his work a while ago too). I'd also massively recommend Perfect Days, a film that perfectly rebuts the modern over-reliance on dialogue in favour of beautiful visual storytelling. :)
Love your channel Tatiana! In the future, it'd be cool to see some videos about the younger generation of magnum photographers, such as Bieke Depoorter, Olivia Arthur, Lua Ribeira, Greg Halpern, Peter Van Agtmael, Sorab Hura etc..
Wim Wenders definitely had to be one of my favourite directors ever...
Also, this reminds me you should also make a video on his long-time collaborator and my favourite cinematographer oat, late Robby Müller ❤️
Agreed, I had responded to someone down below, I found out about Robby’s own Polaroids and want to make a video about it!
@TatianaHopper yayyy lesgooo
Just rewatched a 4k restoration of Paris Texas on the big screen for it's 40th Anniversary. So I really appreciated this video as a follow up. I was thinking how his frames were so picturesque and it reminded me of Philip-Lorca diCorcia's work. Oh and also Salt of the Earth is one of my favourite documentaries of all time!
Lucky you , would love to see it on the big screen again. I'll have to nudge our local cinema, they recently showed Kubrick's 2001 so maybe I can convince them to show one of the greatest films of all time.
@ well it’s the film’s 40th anniversary so you may just have a chance!
Tatiana, thanks so much for the many hours of entertainment and education over this year (and previously!). Yours is way up towards the top of the pile of excellent photography channels on UA-cam ( if not the top!). All the best for the new year 2025. ❤
Thank you so much Alan! I really appreciate it and I’ll continue with the videos as often as I can. All the best to you! And a happy 2025!
Great video Tatiana. I hope all goes well for you in the new year and what a great finish, one of my favourite filmmakers, Wim Wenders! Loved his book but certainly not getting it in German eheh
Thank you, a great new year to you too! Ahaha yes don’t order it in German, thanks for watching.
One of my favorite films of his is the million dollar hotel. That movie is just a vibe.
Another great video. Fascinating to follow your escapades into the photographic landscape.
What matter is where I point my camera. That determines the final result and that is what photography is all about - the images...
I wouldn't complain if every video you ever made was about Wim Wenders. I was studying Cinema in Quebec City when Paris Texas came out, me and friend went to see it four times in the theater. It is far one of the greatest influence on me as a photographer especially that I now find myself in middle America, a European in the middle of Americana. Love the polaroids. I might have to get the German version and just enjoy the images - the english version isn't available or is 10 times the price. Have you watched Jean-Jacques Beineix' Diva yet, I'll keep bugging you about it, LOL. Happy New Year, thanks for all your inspiration.
Great video, thanks! There's an exhibition of Wenders' photography in the Bundeskunsthalle in Germany next August in honor of his 80th birthday and I'm very excited to visit it.
Thanks for watching!
I really love your videos, the contents are always very interesting. Thank you so much. Peace ✌️
Thank you for watching! 🤝🏻
Nice video as always Tatiana! It so true about the nostalgic quality of Polaroids. I still have my dad's old Kodak EK4 instant camera, too bad they don't make the film for it anymore, it would be fun to use it again as it was the first camera I used as a child. Perfect Days is another great film by Wenders. All the best in 2025!!
Thank you Sebastian! I really appreciate it and I’m glad you enjoyed the video, wishing you all the best in 2025 and the conclusion for more projects!
Wonderful video, Tatiana. Happy New Year 🎆🤍
Thank you John! Take care and a happy new year to you!
This video came right on time.
Based on your recomendations in the last video I just watched Paris, Texas. A wonderful movie. Loved it. Thank you.
Great and I’m glad you enjoyed it, thanks for giving this video a watch!
fantastic overview and editing 👍
I really enjoyed this video, and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for making thought-provoking pieces on photographers and photography. Your authenticity is apparent. I'm thankful that there exists a channel on UA-cam that isn't dedicated to trying to market gear to me. Looking forward to seeing your 2025 films. All my best to you and your family. Happy New Year!
Thank you so much Christopher, I really appreciate your feedback and well wishes, I wish you the best too in 2025 for you and your loved ones. Looking forward to bring out more content in 2025!
Great video! As always!!
Thank you Sophie!
Wonderful as always. Thank you so much for these kind of videos and explorations.
I was wondering, where can this documentary be found?
Do you mean the Sebastião Salgado documentary ? Thanks for watching! Much appreciated!
@ yes that's the one!
Last I checked it was available on Amazon prime but it depends on the region I believe.
@ I will check it out, thank you! And have a great New Year!
I bought the Curzon box set of Wim's collected works and it came with one of his polaroids! Love the book too (but my copy is in English thank goodness 🙂)
Lucky you!
thanks for showing those artists!
Thanks for watching!
Nice work thnx Tatiana
Thank you Stephen!
I love the Instant Stories book so much, have it in English, I note it’s now very expensive online.
Hello Tatiana. Much of the perspectives, frames and photographic treatment for WW's films lays in the hands of Robbie Mueller, WW's director of photography throughout the years. RM really made great polaroids, much of the time used for locations/lighting information pre shooting.. RMs skilled eye and hands certainly impressed themselves upon WW from very early on. Perhaps take at look at RMs own collection of polaroids. Blessings for the NY.
That’s correct, I actually uncovered his Polaroids whilst preparing this video and was planning on making another video about it. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you for all these videos you do on great filmmakers. Looking forward to what you will bring to us in 2025! Happy New Year 🎆
Thank you so much! Happy new year to you too!
You need to do one on Robby Müller the cinematographer who did most of Wim Wenders movies. There’s an entire documentary on UA-cam called living the light that everyone should check out. Wims great but Robby is the real master behind the visuals in his movies
Will check it out! Thanks so much for watching!
always amazing
Thank you!
Hi excellent vid, Can you do his cinematographer next? Robby Muller. I believe he dis some photo book also
It's only been in the past few years that I've become aware of Polaroids being used for "serious" photography. I'd always thought of them as just being used for casual snapshots. Maybe I was living under a rock!
I think it was a natural progression actually, I personally love the format of instant photography and I really like the idea of it being a different way of capturing and representing space and time!
What’s that outro song?
Better photographer than movie maker.
if you're American, I can understand it's not easy from your to digest a so specifically European cinematic artist, who specifically wants his audience to be 'inside' the time and stories of his movies. Very special, indeed.
@vidvoodoo I am a German 🙂. I watch movies from everywhere Korea, Japan, Russia, India also in the original....I find him and his movies just boring, emotionless and contentless
My daughter lives in London and I live in the State’s and she always gives me photography books she gave me the 80s photographing Britain by the Tate museum and found Keith Amatt Miss Grace’s lane wish I could see the prints
Please you do an episode on the photography of Roger Ballen
Oh my gosh I recently watched a documentary on Die Antwoord and they explained how they worked with Roger Ballen even for certain music videos and I thought what a great video I could make from this ahah!
Happy new year. Looking forward to continuing watching you in 2025. It's been fun and very informative.
Peace.
Thank you Rob, best to you in 2025.
Thanks
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Excellent choice! I had a shootout with him with two Sx70 once ;))
Amazing! :)
Well, Black and White, and slightly out of focus ;)) Great video, as always inspiring and from the heart, Thank you.
@@tychomagneticanomaly The experience itself also matters, so that's a great one in my books, thanks for watching and commenting!
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Why would someone like Wenders just use Polaroids and stay with it through decades, never change to a 35mm SLR or rangefinder? Is the root the use of Polaroids to judge the lights etc. in a film scene, where you need the immediacy of Polaroids? Very contrary to most people’s tendency to get new gear all the time or to be negatively obsessed with the limitations of what they are using.
Thank you for letting me know that you "would call Wim Wenders an artist". It certainly makes Wim happy that he gets your recognition. Dear Ms Hopper, really?
Yes it does make him happy at least he told me so when he watched the video himself 👍🏻