Wim Wenders - ‘The Coppolas, Kurosawa and my foot - on a lazy Sunday afternoon in paradise’ - Summer 1978 in Napa Valley, California. “…The only great view of the whole group was from the water, so I swam out with my Horizon - you can see my foot in the foreground - and took this picture, guessing the exposure. For a long time, nobody said a word. It was as if we were all aware of this instant of bliss: the sun shining through the trees; the sound of the crickets; the utter peacefulness of a moment that united several generations of film-makers. Life is good - and every now and then a photograph can do it justice.” -WW the rest of the story: Wim Wenders’s best shot | The Guardian for K

Wim Wenders - ‘The Coppolas, Kurosawa and my foot - on a lazy Sunday afternoon in paradise’ - Summer 1978 in Napa Valley, California.

“…The only great view of the whole group was from the water, so I swam out with my Horizon - you can see my foot in the foreground - and took this picture, guessing the exposure. For a long time, nobody said a word. It was as if we were all aware of this instant of bliss: the sun shining through the trees; the sound of the crickets; the utter peacefulness of a moment that united several generations of film-makers. Life is good - and every now and then a photograph can do it justice.” -WW

the rest of the story: Wim Wenders’s best shot | The Guardian

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    GN: I sat in my bathing suit on that same exact rock - it’s actually a dam :) circa 1995 I was a year out of NYU. FFC,...
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    entirely in his own space.
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