CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/7/2015

Wim Wenders: Written in the West, Revisited

"The local AA meeting point was on the main street and seemed to get frequent visitors. I photographed it mostly for the field flowers in the window, and another time I even saw a cowboy going in there. One of the few figures in my photos ... By contrast, the “Cowboy Bar” was located somewhere out of town, or in one of the surrounding places. I no longer remember. I could only look through the window at the long, wooden bar, covered in a thick layer of dust." Excerpt from Wim Wenders' "I Like Paris in the Winter" is reproduced from Written in the West, Revisited, the new edition of the influential German filmmaker's 1987 book of location photographs made while scouting for Paris, Texas in 1983. "Cowboy Bar" was shot in 2001, when Wenders made a follow-up visit to the film's namesake town - where he did not shoot the movie, and which was not photographed for the original edition of the book. Read more on our blog.