In effect, Tarkovsky has been characterized as a modernist in search for spiritual unity – an endeavor that is strongly at odds with the stakes of the Cold War-struck Soviet Union of his days. Introduction of the Polaroid to the Art World A. André Kertész (1894‐1985) B. Andrei Tarkovsky C. Walker Evans 2 V. Conclusion VI. According to Svetlana Boym’s recent book The Future of Nostalgia, the preservation of ruins in their state of decay corresponds to the aesthetics of what she calls reflective nostalgia, that is: nostalgia of an allegorical nature, in which the translation of identity and the displacement of culture is impossible.16 As Georg Simmel has pointed out in his essay on the allegorical trope of the ruin, the ruin brings to life the intimate struggle of the ‘Willen des Geistes’ (will of the spirit) with the ‘Notwendigkeit der Natur’ (necessity of nature), thereby stressing the tragic dominance of nature over architecture.17 Ruins indeed already featured abundantly in Tarkovsky’s earlier films, most prominently in Stalker.
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Tarkovsky also has a special skill in capturing photographs of places at certain times of the day meaning that they often resemble The Zone from Stalker. As the the framing and lighting reflect the eye of an experienced cinematographer, so the composition was staged with an obvious painterly flamboyance. For a good introduction into the historical and sociological debates surrounding the Polaroid picture, see Buse, Peter. What affective state underlies Tarkovsky’s desire to “stop time” by means of snapshots, as Tonino Guerra put it?3 And what role does the specific image quality of Polaroid play in its affective mediation of reality? Therefore it is optimistic, even if in an intimate sense the artist is tragic.8. A confession. This relationship between images and the subject is also been suggested by Svetlana Boym: Boym, Svetlana. Perestroika created a hesitant opening towards the West, and a general fatigue with the bureaucratic Soviet regime initiated massive migration to the West. The great Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky always carried a Polaroid camera with him. […] Aldredge posts a gallery of Tarkovsky’s Poloroids, as blurry and mysterious as you’d expect. : Johnson, Vida and Graham, Petrie. Via John […], […] lastly, even Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids were stunning. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Andrei Tarkovsky’s use of the Polaroid camera during the period of his exile is exemplary for an affective use of the medium. I. Paris: Edition du Cerf, 1958-1962, p. 13ff. Tarkovsky passed away a few years after he published this collection of polaroid photos, making the book very bittersweet and reminiscent of family memories many years past. Time within Time: The Diaries, 1970-1986. I’m glad you enjoyed the Tarkovsy post. The ethereal, slightly overexposed quality of the light, typical of the Polaroid picture, gives the series its sublime character. Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s films — Solaris, Andrei Rublev, ... so it comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that he was an aficionado of the Polaroid camera, a … Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and this is precisely what he wanted: to stop it, even with these quick Polaroid shots. Indeed, Tarkovsky took these pictures shortly before he left for Italy, never to return. On the one hand, Tarkovsky distances himself from the ‘here and now’ while framing the picture. London; New York: Verso, 1994, p. 91. As argued above, in its very ontology as an instantaneous, industrially induced image, the Polaroid plays a disruptive role in the experience of time itself, the Polaroid picture confirms a distanced relationship to reality, and thus reaffirms the impossibility of inhabiting the world immediatedly. Instead of depth and resistance, digital photography advocates a paradigm of wide availability and purely formal nostalgia, thus undoing the ontological power of the Polaroid picture by an unjust use of its aesthetic features. One could say that the picture performs its punctum in a dramatic suspension of the timeframe of immediate experience of reality.6 The presence of say Tarkovsky’s son Andriousha both in the world and in the image simultaneously performs in its purest sense the underlying ontological basis of the photographic image as a confirmation of conditional temporality and death.7 Investigating Tarkovsky’s own reflection about the relationship of images with death appears all the more surprising in this Bazinian framework. Extraordinary … photographs in which the organization of colour and light can only be matched by painters as precise as Vermeer. Bright, Bright Day. Tarkovsky is best known for such cinematic masterpieces as Solaris, The Mirror, Andrei Rublev, and Stalker. Polaroid by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979-84 © Андрей Тарковский/Ultreya, Milano With the discovery and digitisation of a cache of his personal polaroids, we gain access into the luminous world of Andrei Tarkovsky... August 20, 2013 Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroid Diary I wonder what he would have made of […], […] The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky. The melancholy of seeing things for the last time is the highly mysterious and poetic essence that these images leave with us. I hope you’ll be a regular reader. From the nearly 200 Polaroid pictures Andrei Tarkovsky took between 1979 and 1983, only 60 have been selected from the archive at the the Instituto Internazionale Andrei Tarkovski in Florence and published by the Milan-based publishing house Ultrea.4 The first 27 were taken in Russia, chiefly in and around his country house in Myasnoe right outside of Moscow, whereas the remaining 33 had been shot in Italy during the preparations for Nostalghia. This is a real gem of a book' – The Guardian… Tarkovsky’s unhurried, profound films explore themes like memory, childhood, and dreams, and are the antithesis of the Hollywood obsession for rapid-cut editing. Barthes, Roland. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Thanks to all of the readers who have contributed to the Gwarlingo Membership Drive. The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, p. 18. your own Pins on Pinterest And Tarkovsky, here, like God, saw that “it was good”. He was a master of time and rhythm, which he believed was “the dominant, all-powerful factor of the film image.” This is cinema that captures the intimate ebb and flow of everyday life. “What is art?,” asked Tarkovksy. However, it should be noted that Tarkovsky never seemed to have had the intention to include his Polaroid snapshots in his work as an artist and filmmaker – even though the repeated artbook publications and exhibitions (which all happened posthumously) might suggest otherwise. Tarkovsky’s Polaroids are small, portable edifices of memory that appear on the sensitive surface of the Polaroid emulsion, allowing the past to give life and depth to an unknown future. From this point of view, the instant photograph intensifies the process of regular photographic representation by rendering both scene and image simultaneous. As such, the pictures are seemingly picturesque documents of what turned out to be Tarkovsky’s most intimate and dramatic trauma: the impossibility of domestic happiness in his life, and by extension, the forlornness of his whole generation that grew up in the absence of their fathers during and after the Second World War.5 But crucially, the very technology of Polaroid pictures plays a disruptive role in these seemingly harmonious scenes. (Thanks to Sigrun Hodne who writes the Sub Rosa blog in Norway for alerting me to Tarkovsky’s still images). 125+ Gwarlingo readers have contributed so far and $12,000 of the $15,000 goal has been raised. cit., p. 124-125. Indeed, from when Michelangelo Antonioni first gave Andrey Tarkovsky the Polaroid camera as a gift, in the 1970s, it rarely left his side. In my opinion events of our everyday lives are much more mysterious than those we can witness on screen. ), op. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stunning Polaroid Photography Andrei Tarkovsky is considered by many to be the most influential Soviet filmmaker of the post-war era. Some additional Polaroids, however, have been published in Gill, Stephen (ed.). However, it seems that in still photography, he allows himself more space for idealizing. And they feel like a fond farewell. It is the thing that ‘strikes’ the eye and creates a subjective, often emotional relation between the beholder and the image. There’s absolutely no pressure to donate to Gwarlingo, but I appreciate the thought. As you can see, Tarkovsky was just as adept with still Polaroids as he was with film. Gwarlingo highlights some of the most inventive art being made today and is a place where creative people can connect, explore, and share challenges, ideas, and resources. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. In May of 2012 I left MacDowell to pursue writing, speaking, curating, and creative projects full-time. The remaining photographs unfortunately remain inaccessible for scholarly research, as does the rest of Tarkovsky’s personal archive up until today. For a further discussion of this issue, see also: Bird, Robert. As the Russian Polaroid series relate to the orthodox icon in being an imprint of a prototypical vision of divine harmony, the Italian series function as anti-icons, or Gegenbilder, circumscribing lost unity by its absolute absence in the image. It seems that, while framing the scene, Tarkovsky is more concerned with recreating an ideal image of ‘nature’ pre-existing in his imagination than he is with documenting the events of the day. His careful eye is in evidence in these Russian and Italian landscapes with their deep shadows and glimmering sunlight, as well as in the intimate moments Tarkovsky captured with his wife, son, and dog. As Boris Groys noted, Tarkovsky’s series of Polaroids from Myasnoe do not so much express the desire to immortalize reality, as they try to recreate a whole new reality referring to the aesthetics of 19th century romanticism.9 According to Groys, Tarkovsky not only attempts to visually restore the rural Russia from before the revolution, but also projects this nostalgic past into an absolute, aesthetic realm that only exists inside of the Polaroid pictures themselves. (One friend likes to call me “the arts enabler.”) As such, Tarkovsky creates a deeply affective geography of the Russian countryside, in which his inner ‘landscape’ communicates with the shape of the world.10 Tarkovsky’s affective and idealizing relationship with the geographic environment of the Russian countryside, also a primordial aspect in both Solaris and The Mirror, do not so much deliver a documentary image of his family life. Some pictures of the book "Instant Light" a collection of Andrei Tarkovsky Polaroid pictures. Tarkovksy’s vision was unique as a filmmaker; he favored long takes and leisurely scenes that explored the beauty and mystery of everyday life. Become an EEFB patron for as little as $1
The post quotes Tarkovsky’s friend Tonino Guerra, remembering the auteur’s Polaroid period: “In 1977, on my wedding ceremony in Moscow, Tarkovsky appeared with a Polaroid camera. […], I have just enjoyed your article on the polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky. Aside from it being a nice and handy way of taking pictures, how much do we really know about the Polaroid camera? The Politics of Recognition: Jews in Czech and Polish Post-Communist Cinema. Andrei Tarkovsky (born Russia 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was hailed by Swedish director Ingmar Bergrman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) as “the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream”. It is our hope that Tarkovsky's family know the world remembers him and … These 60 photographs were made by Tarkovsky in Russia and Italy between 1979 and 1984 and have been compiled in the book Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids. Great! https://eefb.org/retrospectives/the-polaroids-of-andrei-tarkovsky-1979-1983 As argued in Boym’s account, Tarkovsky’s use of ruins creates an affective experience of historicity – a human, emotional link between history and geography.18 Tarkovsky’s series of Polaroids shot in Italy thus function as an immediate imprint of a state of lost unity, as allegorized in the ruin. The Polaroid of the dog with the mist quietly falling upon the ground is a very natural expansion of Stalker ’s world at least in an obvious visual sense. Instead of selling out to advertisers, I’m “selling out” to my readers instead! We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Stay up on the latest poetry, books, and art news by having Gwarlingo delivered to your email inbox. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it. Discover (and save!) In that sense, he is a thoroughly romantic artist. Come often. Dear readers, we are not-for-profit, ad-free and don't believe in (pay)walls. Often shot against the sunlight, Tarkovsky’s Polaroids evoke a sense of the sacred in the way the Polaroid emulsion gets over-exposed, featuring milky yellow shades. “Polaroid, Aperture, and Ansel Adams: Rethinking the Industry-Aesthetic Divide”, History of Photography, 33, 4 (2009), p. 357-373. Whether you are here to read a new article, browse the Sunday Poem archives, get help with your art toolbox, or share your own work, we welcome you. “Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and this is precisely what he wanted: stop it, even with these quick Polaroid shots.” Guerra, Tonino. I didn’t see this piece in Poetry magazine, Robert, but I’m very interested. The eldest, after casting a brief glance at the image, gave it back to him, saying: ‘Why stop time?’ We were left gaping in wonder, speechless at this extraordinary refusal. “Tarkovsky and Brevity.” Dandelion 3, 1 (2012), p. 1-16. London: White Space Gallery/Tarkovsky Foundation, 2008: another monograph on the subject. He ends his argument with a compelling and mysterious contradiction: the nature of artistic creation is seen as restorative and spiritually harmonizing, all the while being intimately tragic and thus evoking death. They incorporate the attempt to aesthetically and affectively reconnect the material world with its spiritual counterpart, allegorized in the immaterial aspects of the Polaroid surface, ergo the sensitive emulsion, which makes the image appear almost magically. His son, Andrei A Tarkovsky, explains the background to some of the pictures : … I would argue that this contradiction is the very playground in which Tarkovsky’s art takes place, not only his films, but also – perhaps even more intensely – in his Polaroid pictures. Already in Russia, Tarkovsky expresses a strong longing for a lost spiritual unity13 – placing himself in a longstanding tradition of modernist Russian authors such as Aleksei Khomiakov, Vladimir Solovev and Viacheslav Ivanov. In this publication, the Polaroids have been rendered very unluckily on matte paper, often blown up beyond their original size and sometimes even cropped, which makes this publication less suitable for scholarly investigation. Nevertheless, regardless of their purpose, they were crafted cautiously by their author. As Ingmar Bergman once said, … The Man Behind… Antonioni, too, made great use of a Polaroid at the time, and I remember that during a reconnaissance in Uzbekistan for a film that in the end we never made, he wanted to give three elderly Muslims a photograph he had taken of them. “Tarkovsky’s Documentary Romanticism.” In: Gill, Stephen (ed. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. A beautiful, elegiac collection of sixty polaroid photographs by the late, great Soviet film director, Andrey Tarkovsky, is revealed in the book, I nstant Light Tarkovsky Polaroids, as realizing the utmost potential of a fleeting, disposable medium. “Andrei Tarkovsky and Nostalghia.” Film Criticism 8, 3 (1984), p. 2-11. Thanks so much for the heads up. For Tarkovsky, who in the words of one scriptwriter, was preoccupied by “the way time flies”, the introduction of the Polaroid camera was revelatory: an easy and instant way to capture time. I’ve spent almost 20 years helping thousands of successful artists of all disciplines and working to make the arts more accessible. As Ingmar Bergman once said, “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it… Hunters In The Snow You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Its personal, yet cinematic quality is well suited to map Tarkovsky’s imagination on the new geographic givens of the Italian countryside. The often-stated argument that Tarkovsky desires to recreate Russia inside of the Italian context is contradicted by the fact that Tarkovsky’s Polaroid pictures have in large part lost its sense for harmonious romanticism. PO Box 52 . Tarkovsky started experimenting with the Polaroid camera in the late seventies, and was delighted with the results, although he immediately burned the Polaroids he was not happy with. The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979-1983 VOL. Ein ästhetischer Versuch.” Gesamtausgabe Band 8: Aufsätze und Abhandlungen, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1993, p. 124-30. Tarkovsky-camera, the Almighty-auteur and the surveyed world a constant. Many images suggest Tarkovsky's films -- especially Mirror and Nostalghia. In 2015 I was named a “Top 100 Artist, Innovator, Creative” by, Gwarlingo . Tarkovsky indeed seeks explicit connection with German romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich: he captures the landscape very early in the morning, when the fog and the setting sun meet and create mystifying atmospheric effects. The experience of the moment and its representational result are immediately comparable to each other. For a discussion of the amateur vs. fine art debate, see Buse, Peter. To conclude, I wish to formulate some essayistic reflections about the current status of instant photography, and its function in contemporary visual culture. It is as though Andrei wanted to transmit his own enjoyment quickly to others. But how does the Polaroid picture relate to Tarkovsky’s over-arching project to address questions of reunification and harmonization? So why amend the world? Tarkovsky thought a lot about the ‘flight’ of time and wanted to do only one thing: to stop it — even if only for a moment, on the pictures of the Polaroid camera,” he continued. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Bibliography I. You see more of … Continue reading "27 Gorgeous Andrei Tarkovsky Polaroids" Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. The Polaroids Tarkovsky shot in Italy between 1980 and 1983 – the period of preparation for Nostalghia-, are no exception to this notion. His images were dreamlike and poetic although they portrayed common sights and people, leaving the melancholy of seeing things for the last time as they were. Правила жизни и полароидные фотографии Андрея Тарковского The invention of the Polaroid camera was a big step in the advancement of photography. Here I refer to Roland Barthes’ terminology from his essay Camera Lucida. (eds.) From 1999-2012 I worked at The MacDowell Colony, the nation’s oldest artist colony, but I've also done time at an arts magazine, a library, an art museum, and a raptor rehabilitation center. Become a Patron! The Future of Nostalgia, New York: Basic Books, 2002, p. 12. Polaroid by Andrei Tarkovsky from the book Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids from Thames and Hudson. See also Bazin, André. Artistic creation is by definition a denial of death. INTRODUCTION The Polaroid camera produces instant photographs. Taken from Tarkovsky’s personal collection and compiled together for the Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids (1st Edition), these polaroids span some of Tarkovsky’s most productive years while working on classics like Stalker and Nostalghia. Hence, rather then restorative, Tarkovsky’s Polaroids are revelationist in nature: they reveal an imaginary, visionary geography, all the while idealizing the assets of the past.11. It is not his migration as a biographical event that has to be understood as a source for the nostalgic tone in his films. ‘L’ontologie de l’image photographique’ in: Qu’est-ce que le cinéma? And is not the Polaroid camera, which Tarkovsky first used in 1977 (p. 7), the ideal device for the spontaneous reaffirmation of … In his Italian endeavors, Tarkovsky used the Polaroids for a rather professional goal, namely as a medium for location scouting. Using the example of Andrei Tarkovsky, I wish to address questions of the ontology of the Polaroid picture as an immediate imprint of reality and its power as a medium for nostalgia, and, with regard to Tarkovsky’s work, also as a medium with subversive affect through the aesthetics of visual romanticism. In that period, Tarkovsky was able to build an Italian-Soviet coproduction structure in order to make Nostalghia, his first film shot in Western Europe. If you would like to read it, it’s in the latest issue (May) of Poetry found here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org. In those terms, the immensely popular digital Polaroid imitators such as Instagram and Polarize are unable to evoke the same affective response to images, both by their reproducibility, and their immaterial quality. In an interview with an Italian newspaper, he elaborates this point: The film expresses a feeling which is deeply rooted in myself, and which I never felt so strongly before I left the Soviet Union. They raise the following key questions I intend to address here: why is it that Andrei Tarkovsky grabbed his instant camera to shoot pieces of daily life between roughly 1979 and 1983 – the period surrounding his exile in Italy? “Art as Revelation: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films and the Insights of Victor Erice.” Journal of European Studies 41,1 (2011), p. 23-43. Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood (still), 1962. As Tarkovsky’s use of the medium shows, a picture is not only its content, or its aesthetic aspects, but also its material process of coming-into-existence. The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System, Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1992, p. 100. Come back. As I have argued, Tarkovsky uses the very characteristics of the medium to the advantage of what I would call a subversive affect by means of visual romanticism. The Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni reportedly gave his friend and colleague Andrei Tarkovsky a Polaroid camera in 1977. Maybe, digital photography should introspect more on its own material premises to obtain affective depth beyond flat vintage-nostalgia…. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Conclusion, Provocation Andrei Tarkovsky’s use of the Polaroid camera during the period of his exile is exemplary for an affective use of the medium. The Polaroid’s immediateness, its physical uniqueness, and its ethereal image quality are responsible altogether for creating emotional depth and even spiritual evocation. “Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. I am truly sorry. If you’d like to explore the world of Tarkovsky further, Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids and Sculpting in Time: The Great Russian Filmmaker Discusses His Art are available here or in your local bookstore. Tarkovsky’s visual language of nostalgia thus functions as a subversive affect desiring to undo the spiritual disaster modern industrialization has caused.14. Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema, 1950-1980. Tarkovsky’s work is infused with spirituality—a larger sense of connectedness, a sense of found beauty in an imperfect world. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. To many writers and critics, this decision appeared at odds with Tarkovsky’s profound Russianness, and one indeed wonders how precisely Tarkovsky could have been able to find creative asylum outside of his beloved Russia. Equally rewarding cross-fertilization is apparent in the images that were taken in Italy while he was travelling with Tonino Guerra and preparing Nostalgia (1983). cit., p. 7. Elements of Cinema. Groys, Boris. Tonino Guerra, “A Fond Farewell” in Chiaramonte, Giovanni and Tarkovsky, Andrey A. Very best wishes, Roger Thorp, […] http://www.gwarlingo.com/2013/the-polaroids-of-andrei-tarkovsky-the-mystery-of-everyday-life/ […]. p.s. He would see his son only four years later on his deathbed in Paris. At my wedding in Moscow in 1977, Tarkovsky had a Polaroid camera in his hand and he moved about happily with this instrument which he discovered only recently. In the process of making Nostalghia, this relation is probably heightened to an absolute. On the other hand, the Polaroid also renders the picture immediately available. Equally, rewarding cross-fertilization is apparent in the images that were taken in Italy while he was traveling with Tonino Guerra and preparing Nostalgia (1983). A short while ago I was reading another good piece about film and photographs in Poetry magazine. Translated and published in: Aspesi, Natalia. Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, p. 7. He and Michelangelo Antonioni were my witnesses at the wedding, and as the custom then, it fell to them to choose the music for the band to play when the time came to sign the marriage certificate. Here Tarkovsky clearly states his deepest connection to death, and the restorative role he attributes to the creation of images. Instead, they evoke a paradisical sense of harmony, seeking contact with various traditions of visual mysticism throughout the course of the history of art. Whatever it expresses – even destruction and ruin – the artistic image is by definition an embodiment of hope, it is inspired by faith. The early eighties are a period of dramatic change in the lives of many Russian artists and intellectuals. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. Tarkovsky pensó mucho sobre el "vuelo" del tiempo, y quería conseguir una sola cosa: pararlo —aunque solo fuera por un instante, en las imágenes de la Polaroid». I would love to donate, but am unable to do so. His wife Larisa, his son Andrei, and their dog Dakus play a central role here. (eds. All of them are beautiful in their own right. 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