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An elegiac collection of sixty Polaroid photographs by the late Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky.
"Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and wanted to stop it, even with these quick Polaroid shots. The melancholy of seeing things for the last time is the highly mysterious and poetic essence that these images leave with us. It is as though Andrei wanted to transmit his own enjoyment quickly to others. And they feel like a fond farewell."Tonino Guerra, from the IntroductionThis beautifully produced book comprises sixty Polaroid photographs of Andrei Tarkovsky's friends and family, taken between 1979 and 1984 in his native Russia and in Italy, where he spent time in political exile.The size of the Polaroids is exactly as presented in the book, including the frame. The book may therefore be viewed as a facsimile edition. 60 color illustrations.
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About the Authors
Giovanni Chiaramonte is a distinguished Italian photographer. His images center around the relationship between place and destiny in Western civilization, a theme he shares with Andrey Tarkovsky.
Andrey Tarkovsky was a Russian director, writer and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of the Soviet era in Russia and one of the greatest in movie history. Among his films are Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, and Nosalghia. He died in 1986.
Tonino Guerra's narrative talents have provided screenplays for film directors as diverse as Theo Angelopoulos, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, Frederico Fellini and the Taviani brothers, as well as Andrey Tarkovsky.
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The Russian Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is one of the greatest directors in film history. Here Italian photographer Chiaramonte and Tarkovsky's son mount a selection of color Polaroids the filmmaker took from 1979 to 1984 of his home, family, and friends in Russia and of places he visited in Italy. His father, Arseny, was a distinguished poet, and judging from the notebook extracts accompanying the pictures, Tarkovsky was no mean poet himself. Like his father, he intuited a holy eternity. Those windows into eternity, the icons of the Orthodox Church, influenced his visual style (his Andrei Rublev commemorates the greatest icon painter), and these photos, suffused by the ochre light of late afternoon and so powerfully composed that they argue that supreme artistic visualization was second nature to Tarkovsky, look so timeless and enduring that they inspire worshipful awe. Like some of the imagery of The Mirror, the Tarkovsky film these pictures most resemble, some of them tax and frustrate legibility. Always, they affirm a line of Arseny Tarkovsky's, "We are all immortal." Ray Olson
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As New softcover.60 color plates. A concise and deeply personal body of work by one of the most consequential filmmakers of the 20th century. Known for Stalker, Andrei Rublev, and Nostalghia, Tarkovsky developed a cinematic language grounded in duration, memory, and a distinctly Russian poetic tradition. The sixty Polaroids reproduced here?taken between 1979 and 1984 in Russia and during his Italian exile?extend that language into an intimate, immediate form. These are not incidental images but compressed reflections of his filmic sensibility: subdued light, suspended time, and an acute awareness of passage and loss. Edited by Giovanni Chiaramonte in collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky Jr., the volume frames the work through Tarkovsky's sustained meditation on memory, place, and metaphysical light. The images,portraits of family and collaborators, rural landscapes, interiors, and still life, retain the quiet intensity and temporal suspension that define his cinema. During his exile, Tarkovsky spent significant time in Rome and in the countryside around San Gregorio da Sassola, where he developed and shot Nostalghia in collaboration with Tonino Guerra. The Italy of Nostalghia?thermal baths, rural ruins, fog-laden landscapes?maps closely onto the atmosphere of the Polaroids from this period. With an introduction by Tonino Guerra, who reflects on the images as a fleeting transmission?marked by the melancholy of seeing things for the last time, and the sense of a quiet, personal farewell. Seller Inventory # ABE-1777511257652
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition of the reprint 2007/ 08, from the edition of the 2004 . Soft cover with illustrated wraps, 136 page book. Illustrated with 60 color Polaroids by Adrei Tarkovsky ( 1932 - 1986 ) taken over time ( 1979 - 1984 ) in Russia and Italy . A very rare book on Polaroid photography by this artist . Condition : NEW Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 051524-V