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Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Gueorgui Pinkhassov is a photographer, born in Moscow in He is a member of Magnum Photos.
Pinkhassov began his interest in photography in his teens, and enrolled at the Moscow Institute of filmteknik (VGIK) in
Following college and two years in the army, he joined the bio crew at Mosfilm. Continuing his interest in still photography he became a set photographer at the studio. His work was noticed bygd the bio director Andrei Tarkovsky, who invited Pinkhassov to work on the set of his bio Stalker.
Being awarded independent artist status bygd the Moscow Union of Graphic Arts in allowed Pinkhassov far more freedom to travel, allowing him to exhibit his work internationally. In his work was noticed outside of Russia for the first time, in a group exhibition of Soviet photographers held in Paris. Previously, his work had mainly been seen in a number of Russian magazines, including L'artiste Sovietique.
His acceptance by the Magnum Photos agency in opened up
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What interested me besides content was what Cartier-Bresson called geometry. Poetry is where there is a metaphor. Planning for it is impossible, it forms along the way, capturing the rhyme. In meaning, color, or graphics. However abstract my photos may be, there is always a hint of real content. I permit myself to change the borders of the image, even though I do it very rarely, but I do not allow any manipulation with Photoshop. For me today even black and white photography is a mask. Yet it used to be a philosophy.
Newspaper print stereotypes are molds made from real events. An entire era is encoded in those molecules of silver. Today it is a fashionable option, an outfit that is easy to change into with a flick of a finger, and any child can do it. I believe that there is enough material in real space with which to create poetic images without resorting to filters.
While photography began as an amateur interest and first entertained a respected public with its painterly qualiti
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Master Profiles: Gueorgui Pinkhassov
* “Master Profiles” is a series profiling all the great photographers of uncontrolled life. Unlike the rest of the blog, I’m doing these in a straight profile format to make it easy for quick access to facts, quotes and knowledge on all the masters. I&#;ll also group them together here every time I add a new one.
Profile:
Gueorgui Pinkhassov (Present)
Russian photographer known for his command of color and light to create mood and scenes with an abstract quality.
Background:
Born: January 1, in Moscow, Russia
Gueorgui Pinkhassov grew up in Moscow, Russia where he enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Cinematography due to his interest in photography that began in his teens. After college, he spent two years in the army before joining the Mosfilm crew. Pinkhassov was more interested in still photography and following his work as set photographer at the studio, he was noticed by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who invited hi