Michel and Sally Strauss Contemporary Photography Collection
38
Wim Wenders
The Road to Emmaus, near Jerusalem
- Estimate
- £10,000 - 15,000♠
£32,500
Lot Details
Mural-sized chromogenic print, face-mounted.
2000
Image: 134.5 x 407.9 cm (52 7/8 x 160 5/8 in.)
Frame: 182.7 x 452.8 cm (71 7/8 x 178 1/4 in.)
Frame: 182.7 x 452.8 cm (71 7/8 x 178 1/4 in.)
Signed in ink, printed title, date and number 2/6 on a gallery label affixed to the reverse of the frame.
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Catalogue Essay
‘You can never really own a place.
Even the camera can’t.
And if we take its pictures,
we’re only borrowing the place’s appearance
for a little while,
nothing but its outer skin, its surface.’
Wim Wenders, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth
Even the camera can’t.
And if we take its pictures,
we’re only borrowing the place’s appearance
for a little while,
nothing but its outer skin, its surface.’
Wim Wenders, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth
Provenance
Exhibited
Literature