The Eternity in a Moment: Instant Light, Tarkovsky Polaroids

Composed of sixty luminous polaroids taken by Anrdrey Tarkovsky in Russia and Italy between 1979 and 1984, this beautifully produced series of cameos from the director’s life reveals him to be a master of the still as much as of the moving image. The photos in the first section, taken in Russia, have the radiant melancholy of lengthening shadows and trees looming through misty dawns near Tarkovsky`s county dacha, together with portraits of his wife, son and dog, loaded with nostalgia by quotations from his later diaries. Those taken in Italy portray exquisite still lifes and glimmering ruins. The book concludes with photographs from Tarkovsky`s personal collection.

Instant Light, Tarkovsky Polaroids

[Thames&Hudson]