Ten Analog Stories in Flight: Inside Rafaelo Kazakov's Photo Collection
Capturing the moment means something different now than it did in the days before TikTok. Or does it? These photographs will remind you why photography will outlive social networks.
02Takor Kyurdyan: The Artist of Archetypes
A remarkable master spends years searching for his own way to leave his gaze on photographic paper, and in the end he finds it: he coats his nude heroines in emulsion and “prints” them directly onto the paper. His unconventional approach and his photographic paintings, which become known as “archetypes,” own their era, and then seem to vanish, just as archetypes do. Today you will find almost nothing about him on the endless internet. Takor Kyurdyan died a quarter of a century ago, at only 51, and now his singular works are being reborn, dug out of time's memory by a young historian. It is time for a black-and-white digital story that brings together the fates of three men in a friendship beyond time.
03“No Two Photographs Can Ever Be the Same”
Ot upor (Point Blank) is the title of Garo Keshishian's book. We meet the great master of photography to talk about life in pictures. “Pressing the shutter really is death. One man kills a rabbit, another kills a lion.” “Now everyone lifts a phone and snaps away. And once they've shot their kebapcheta, they think they've taken a photograph, because it's in focus.”
