Wim Wenders, Title Unknown, (Gold Medal Flour), Polaroid Film

Filmaker Wim Wenders, now 73, was given his first camera as a child in Dusseldorf by his father, a doctor. it became the start of his career in films and photography. He reckons he took more than twelve thousand Polaroids between 1973 and 1983, when his career as a film-maker really took off, but only 3,500 remain.

“The thing is, you gave them away. You had the person in front of you, whose picture you had just taken, and it was like they had more right to it. The Polaroids helped with making the movies, but they were not an aim in themselves. They were disposable.” – Wim Wenders