Lot 78: Andrei Tarkovsky (Russian, 1932-1986) Polaroids 1979-1984: A complete portfolio of 25 photographs each: 497 x 396mm

Polaroids 1979-1984: A complete portfolio of 25 photographs
each photograph signed, numbered '2/12' and impressed with the stamp of the Tarkovsky Foundation; each contained in card sleeve, within cloth-bound caseeach: 497 x 396mm
(25)

Printed in 2007, this portfolio is number 2 from an edition of 12.

Literature:
Andrey Tarkovsky: Bright, bright day, London: White Space Gallery Ltd., 2007

'…Ordinary objects were at once transfigured,
Everything – the jug, the basin – when
Placed between us like a sentinel
Stood water, laminary and firm.

We were led, not knowing whither,
Like mirages before us there receded
Cities built by miracle,
Wild mint was laying itself beneath our feet,
Birds travelling by the same route as ourselves,
And in the river fishes swam upstream;
And the sky unrolled itself before our eyes…'

An extract from Arseniy Tarkovsky's poem First Meetings, translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair (Andrey Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time; Reflections on the Cinema, The Bodley Head, London, 1986). Andrei Tarkovsky used this poem in his film Mirror.