- Artist/Maker:
- Wim Wenders
- Bio:
- German, b. 1945
- Title:
- Jerusalem Seen from the Mount of Olives
- Date:
- 2000
- Medium:
- Chromogenic color print
- Dimensions:
- 114 1/8 × 45 7/8 in. (289.9 × 116.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Photography Acquisitions Committee Fund and Gift of Alice and Nahum Lainer
- Accession Number:
- 2004-62
Not On View
Past and present are embedded in the sites depicted by German filmmaker and photographer Wim Wenders. Layers of history, taking the form of geological strata, are represented in the emphatically vertical photograph. In Jerusalem Seen from the Mount of Olives, the Dome of the Rock is visible in the background. The hill where Jesus met his disciples is now strewn with trash, an indication that natural forces and time have eroded historical memory. In this work, the spiritual and the material, the sacred and the banal, seem to coexist vertiginously.
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