I recently bought "Instant Light Tarkovsky Polaroids", a collection of A. Tarkovsky's Polaroids from Russia and Italy; landscapes, family, interiors, still lifes, architecture. They are ethereal and I can discern the same unique view on composition and color Tarkovsky shows in his movies. It is difficult to choose favorites but the still life and interior Polaroids are a good candidate. Instead of adding more comments here, I would highly recommend to get the book, each Polaroid is like a small movie, frozen in time. The book also contains comments by Tarkovsky on some of the Polaroids, which is quite interesting:

"Whatever it expresses -
even destruction and ruin -
the artistic image
is by definition an embodiment of hope,
it is inspired by faith.
Artistic creation
is by definition a denial of death.
Therefore it is optimistic,
even if in an ultimate sense the artist is tragic.
And so there can never be
optimistic artists and pessimistic artists.
There can only be talent and mediocrity."

You can find it at amazon ([link]).

I also bought "A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart" by Maria Vettese & Stephanie Congdon Barnes. The concept is intriguing, each day for a year each woman took a photograph in the morning, always before noon, and then posted them as diptychs at their shared blog. The book's title is a reference to the fact that they live 3191 miles apart. I first came upon the blog some months ago and the idea seemed to me simple but still demanding. How do you find inspiration every day to take at least one decent photograph and post it? Most people do similar things each day, with occasional variations; it would take a lot of attention to detail to pick each day a moment to capture on camera. And so, I liked the idea and the challenge to capture the everyday minutiae of mornings and decided to buy the book.

Most photographs have a calm aura, seem simple but have little details that make them more interesting. Not all photos are of equal quality and some might seem repetitive. Some diptychs display photos that are quite similar, almost as if they had discussed it beforehand, and other are very different. However, all of them are connected by the same concept. There is little excitement in the photos but they make for a nice, serene book that can be browsed many times. My complaint is that some diptychs are small and it is hard to properly see them.

The blog is here [link] and the book is available at amazon ([link])
A second book with the same concept is scheduled for this summer, a photograph each day in the evening, titled "A Year of Evenings".

I am wondering if it would be interesting to do something similar, perhaps a photo each week? It would be challenging since I take erratically photographs, upload sporadically and I don't carry my camera (my mobile phone's doesn't really count!) with me at all times.



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