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In my recent discussion of Wes Anderson I mentioned the clear link between still photography and film making. Many fine film directors are also excellent photographers. Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch are three who come to mind immediately. Andrei Tarkovsky is another.

Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was the finest film maker of the late Soviet era. Films as diverse as the sci-fi classic Solaris, the medieval epic drama of Russian history and spirituality, Andrei Rublev and The Mirror, are just three of his brilliant movies where music and images are as important as the story.

In the 1970s Tarkovsky discovered the amazing SLR made by Polaroid, the SX-70, and began using it to photograph potential shooting sites for his films. In the process he took some of the greatest Polaroids ever taken. The SX-70 was an outstanding camera, providing quality unlike any of the new Polaroid cameras today. The film was also of a much more reliable quality as well.

But nevertheless, Tarkovsky had a brilliant photographic eye for light honed over many years of film making since his days as a student in the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. His Polaroids have been published in a book called Instant Light. www.theculturium.com/andrei-tarkovsky-instant-light/

Instant Light - Tarkovsky Polaroids
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyaGuihqOMc

They are also reproduced in this book I am showing you today, which is a wonderful collection of his writings on the art of film making. For those interested in his films, I suggest you watch this wonderful short documentary:
Praying Through Cinema – Understanding Andrei Tarkovsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNezdOlS-aw

Taken on: October 29, 2023

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