Alexey Titarenko
Alexey Titarenko | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexey Viktorovich Titarenko November 25, 1962 |
| Nationality | Soviet Russian |
| Known for | Photography |
Alexey Viktorovich Titarenko (Russian: Алексей Викторович Титаренко; born 1962 in Leningrad, USSR, now Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Soviet and Russian photographer and artist.
Biography
At age 15 he became the youngest member of the independent photo club Zerkalo [Mirror]. Graduated from the Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at Leningrad's Institute of Culture.[1] His series of collages and photomontages "Nomenklatura of Signs" (first exhibited in 1989, Leningrad) is a commentary on the Communist regime as an oppressive system that converts citizens into mere signs.[2] "Nomenklatura of Signs" was included in the major U.S. traveling exhibition of the new Soviet photography Photostroyka in 1990.[3]. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 he produced several series of photographs about human condition of and suffering endured by the Russian people during this time and throughout the twentieth century, in which he created powerful metaphors by introducing long exposure into street photography to illustrate links between the present and the past. [4] [5] [6][7] The most well-known series from this period is "City of Shadows," whose urban landscapes reiterate the Odessa Steps scene from Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin. [8] Inspired by the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky he also translated Dostoevsky's vision of the Russian soul into sometimes very poetic, sometimes dramatic pictures of his native city, Saint Petersburg. [9][10][11] [12]
Monographs
- Bauret, Gabriel. "Alexei Titarenko." Galerie Municipale de Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, 2000, ISBN 2-913241-20-4
- Tchmyreva, Irina. "City of Shadows." Art-Tema, Saint Petersburg, 2001, ISBN 5-94258-005-7
- Bauret, Gabriel. "Fragments of the discourse on a photographic oevre." Nailya Alexander, Washington D.C., 2003, ISBN 0-9743991-0-8
References
- ^ Aidan Dunne. "Camera in a City of Shadows." Irish Times, Dublin, May 05 , 2007
- ^ "Dictionnaire mondial de la photographie" Paris, Éditions Larousse, 1994, page 629, ISBN 978-2035113153
- ^ "Photostroyka: New Soviet Photography" Aperture, 1989 , ISBN 0-39381-410-5, Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 5830845
- ^ Pollack, Barbara. "Alexey Titarenko." Art News, April 2010, page 108
- ^ William Meyers. "A Master of Technique." Wall Street Journal, March 13-14 , 2010
- ^ Howarth, Sophie and McLaren, Stephen . "Street Photography Now." London, Thames & Hudson , 2010, page 199-201, ISBN 978-0-500-28907-5
- ^ Ollman, Leah. "Russian Photos Trace Images of Mortality and Memory." Los Angeles Times , August 3, 2001
- ^ Protzman, Ferdinand. "Landscape. Photographs of Time and Place." National Geographic, 2003, ISBN 0792261666
- ^ Glueck, Grace "Northern Light." New York Times , New York, March 24, 2006
- ^ Guerrin, Michel. "Alexey Titarenko, clair-obscure." Le Monde, Paris, February 22, 2003
- ^ Bouruet-Aubertot, Veronique "La Cite des Ombres." Beau-Arts magazin , Paris, February 2003
- ^ A.-D. Bouzet. "Saint Petersburg en Ombre et Blanc." Liberation, Paris, July 21, 2002
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