Last week Monday would have been Andrei Tarkovsky’s 79th birthday, so in belated celebration check this shit out:
It appears that in the late 70’s, Michelangelo Antonioni gave Tarkovsky a Polariod camera and Tarkovsky went nuts over the thing, taking hundreds and hundreds of photos. Unsurprisingly, they’re gorgeous. I really recommend taking a look through the galleries linked below.
(Imagine what Tarkovsky would have done on Instagram.)
Poemas del río Wang’s gallery from June 2010 is the biggest cache I could find. Also has some nice anecdotes.
The website of the book Bright, bright day, about Tarkovsky’s photography, has a small gallery.
All of this via Toxico Cultura which has a few more photographs as well.