Wim Wenders, Jerusalem Seen from the Mount of Olives, Chromogenic color print, 2000
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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