I’ve been interested in visiting Paris, Texas for some time, although the biggest reason I was drawn to the place really doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Paris, Texas is one of my favorite films. But the town of Paris is not shown in the film and is only mentioned tangentially by Harry Dean Stanton’s character. The film’s director, Wim Wenders, did include many images of Paris in the expanded edition of his Written in the West photo book (now out of print) but ended up filming elsewhere.
Despite this (or because of it), I went a little out of my way to get these photographs on a quite cold Saturday morning in February.
