About the Russian photographer and filmmaker, Andrei TARKOVSKY (Андрей Тарковский, 1932-1986).
Andrei Arsenyevich TARKOVSKY graduated from the VGIK Film School in Moscow in 1961, where director Mikhail Romm was his teacher. His first full-fledged feature film, 'Ivan's Childhood', was released in 1962 and made him famous overnight. In 1972, 'Solaris', a film adaptation of the science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, was released. Between 1974 and 1979, 'Stalker' - the last film he produced in the Soviet Union - was made as a free adaptation of the science fiction novel 'Picnic by the Wayside' by Boris and Arkady Strugatzki. In 1983 he left the Soviet Union and sought asylum in Italy. Subsequently, he stayed in Paris, London and Berlin. Andrei TARKOVSKY died of cancer in Paris on December 29, 1986, at the age of 54.
(Photo)Books by and about the work of Andrei TARKOVSKY
'The Sealed Time' (1985, 1988, 2000, 2021); 'Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids' (2006, ed. by Giovanni CHIARAMONTE); 'Life and Work' (2012); 'Writings, Films, Stills' (2012)