Journey to Onomichi

Wim Wenders
Journey to Onomichi

Photographs: Wim Wenders

Text: Heiner Bastian & Wim Wenders

Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel

64 pages

Year: 2009

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 24,7 x 20,2cm, color photographs. First edition. In very good condition other than traces of use. Text in German and in English

A tribute to Japanese film maker Yazujiro Ozu and his cinematic masterpiece Tokyo Story, Wim Wenders reiterates the movie s journey to the fishing town of Onomichi as a personal pilgrimage. The German film maker describes the real town of Onomichi as he finds it with the shy and admiring eyes of a sensitive foreigner: in color photographs and in a long prose poem, while the 24 pictures of the book can be seen as poems themselves. Through this combination of text and images the town of Onomichi is transformed into both a poetic and a real place before our very eyes.

"Photography has given me the language to express what is inside of me.
With Donata taking pictures in black and white, almost exclusively of people, and me photographing strictly in color, almost exclusively places, we are never in each other’s way, and certainly not competitive.“

Wim Wenders, 2004