Foto: Alexey Titarenko
Nadat de Sovjet-Unie uiteenviel (1991) maakte Alexey Titarenko (1962) in thuisstad Sint-Petersburg zijn misschien wel beste foto’s. Ten minste veel van zijn bekendste, te vinden in o.a. City of Shadows (Город теней). Er viel ook veel te registreren, maar Titarenko deed meer dan dat.
Sint-Petersburg
‘Major photo series include “City of Shadows” (1992-1994), “Black and White Magic of St. Petersburg” (1995-1997), and “Time Standing Still” (1998-1999). In those series Titarenko paints a bitter picture of a Russia (seen through the lens of St. Petersburg), where people live in a world of unrealized hopes and where time seems to have stopped.’ (All About Photo)
Alexey Titarenko – City of Shadows Series, St. Petersburg – Photography
(Eīhwaz, 2014, 5 m)
‘I saw people on the verge of insanity, in confusion: They looked like shadows, undernourished and worn out.’ (MyModernMet)
Alexey Titarenko – Magic of St. Petersburg (1991-2009)
(Eīhwaz, 2014, 8 m)
‘I felt an intense desire to articulate these sufferings and grieving, to visualize them through my photographs, to awaken empathy and love for my native city’s inhabitants.’ (DuckRabbit)
New York
Titarenko fotografeerde ook buiten Rusland, onder meer in New York, waar hij nu woont. Zie o.a Alexey Titarenko: New York (Monovisions, 2015). Ook foto’s van elders in Alexey Titarenko (devuelta fotos, 2020, 2 m) en onderstaande (3squinas Fotografia, 2018, 4 m).
Nomenklatura of Signs
Sovjetleven in tekens en symbolen. Serie fotomontages (1986-1991), gemaakt ‘at the crossroad of two different epochs, the totalitarian regime and Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika.’ (Alexey Titarenko)
Alexey Titarenko: Nomenklatura of Signs
(Alexander Galan, 2020, 1 m)
Artist Series
Voor een portret en Titarenko aan het woord, zie deze Artist Series: Alexey Titarenko (The Art of Photography, 2016, 10 m). En van hetzelfde kanaal
- That Time I Met Alexey Titarenko (2016, 9 m)
- The City is A Novel: Photos by Alexey Titarenko (2016, 13 m)
- Capturing Motion: From Vroman to Titarenko (2015, 6 m)
Meer
Zie
- Alexei Titarenko. New experience and vision of artist’s 2020. (PhotoVista, 2020, 89 m)
- Photographer Spotlight: Alexey Titarenko and the City as Novel (LA Review of Books, 2016, 9 m)
- Alexey Titarenko: Art et la Maniere. ARTE France 2005. (Alexey Titarenko, 2016, 27 m)
Zie/lees
- Alexey Titarenko: ‘I wanted to capture my inner perception of the world around me’ (Studio International, 2017)
- Photographer Transforms Crowds into Shadows and Black and White into Color (Art News, 2014)
- ‘City of Shadows’: Alexey Titarenko’s haunting photographs (Dangerous Minds, 2011)
- Alexey Titarenko. City of Shadows (Photographize)
- Schilderen met een camera (2): ontdek het werk van Alexey Titarenko (The Art Couch)
- Lens Culture
- Photographer.ru
- Rosphoto
- Wikipedia Engels en Russisch
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