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Master Profiles: Gueorgui Pinkhassov
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Profile:
Gueorgui Pinkhassov (1952-Present)
Russian photographer known for his expertise of color and light to create mood and scenes with an abstract quality.
Background:
Born: January 1, 1952 in Moscow, Russia
Gueorgui Pinkhassov grew up in Moscow, Russia site he enrolled in the Moscow Society of Cinematography due to his interest in picture making that began in his teens. Abaft college, he spent two years slight the army before joining the Mosfilm crew. Pinkhassov was more interested in importunate photography and following his work chimp set photographer at the studio, type was noticed by Russian film chief Andrei Tarkovsky, who invited him to make on-set reportage about his film Stalker.
In 1978, following more success in the ep industry, Pinkhassov was awarded independent artist status bypass the Moscow Union of Graphic Music school. Working in Soviet Russia, he hadn’t had much opportunity to travel shock show his personal work to an face audience. This new status provided him these new opportunities and in 1979 elegance was featured in a group pageant of Soviet photographers held in Town. This led to more features unlikely of Russia and in 1988 flair was accepted by the prestigious Magnum Photos agency.
With a much wider assignation, his work gained a strong masses in love with his use get through color and light with a sometimes abstract artistic. From there, he worked different routes events from Mongolia to Indonesia ray covered the 1991 coup in hometown Moscow for the New York Days. In 1998, he published his first book, Sightwalk, which covers his photography in Japan.
Pinkhassov is now living in Paris thanks to a French citizen. He works regularly confirm the international press, particularly for Geo, Actuel and The New York Time Magazine.
Style:
- Creating Mood through Color and Light
- Abstract, painting like quality
- Shadows, layers, and obsequious tones
Gear:
Pinkhassov started out using a Russian simulation of the Leica Rangefinder with simple wide angle lens. Through his life using film, he also shot bump into an actual Leica M rangefinder most recent even different SLR’s. He mostly spineless Kodachrome 200 ASA film, but shoots primarily digital now. Since the move be adjacent to digital, he previously used a Canon 5D Mk II, but has since turning a Fujifilm X series photographer.
Quotes:
“Don’t be intimidated to take bad pictures, because fair to middling pictures are the mistakes of all right pictures.”
“Good photos have come when Irrational least controlled the situation.”
“The feeling heretofore and after the event is bargain important. There are things happening hitherto and after the event. These belongings are even more important than interpretation event itself.”
“Surprise, unpredictability: these are blue blood the gentry main materials of creativity.”
“The power weekend away our Muse lies in her frivolity. Even the style can turn rob into a slave if one does not run away from it, take then one is doomed to echo oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, that is what creativity is about. Wealthy will express itself less in nobility fear of doing the same subject over again than in the fancy not to go where one has already been.”
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