Nailya Alexander Gallery is excited to participate in the 45th edition of The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, the premier art fair for contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photography in New York City. The show will run in the historic Park Avenue Armory from April 22 through April 26, with a VIP preview on Wednesday, April 22, from 4 pm to 9 pm.

We are exhibiting in Booth B5 together with Galeria Vasari from Buenos Aires. Our gallery will feature early Socialist realist photographs by Boris Ignatovich (1899-1976) and Sergey Shimansky (1898-1972), and will highlight the work of Alexey Titarenko (b.1962), from the series Nomenklatura of Signs (1986-1991) and City of Shadows (1990s) to recent photographs of New York. 

Preview our presentation here.

We are excited to see Alexey Titarenko’s work mentioned by Ariella Budick in the review of Street Photography Reinvented in Stirring New York Show “We Are Here” in the Financial Times.

We are excited to share that Alexey Titarenko's photographs will be on view in the International Center of Photography's upcoming exhibition We Are Here: Scenes From the Streets. The exhibition spotlights contemporary street photography from over 30 international photographers.

Scenes From the Streets highlights the diverse perspectives and techniques that define modern street photographers and emphasizes the role of the streets as a canvas for illustrating change.

The exhibition is curated by Guest Curator Isolde Brielmaier, PhD, with Noa Wynn, Independent Curatorial Assistant.

During the collapse of the USSR, Titarenko searched for a different visual language to express his country's new reality. His experiments with long exposure and innovative printmaking techniques in the context of street photography led to the series City of Shadows (1991-1994). This series brought him international acclaim and was shown around the world. A selection from the series can be viewed in the ICP exhibition. 

We are please to share that Alexey Titarenko and his exhibition Alexey Titarenko: City of Shadows, on view at the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO in St. Petersburg, have been featured on Channel One Russia. Please click here to view the segment, which includes an interview with Titarenko, an overview of the exhibition, and an interview with Titarenko’s son, the photographer Petr Titarenko.

In addition, in a recent interview for St. Petersburg Diary, Titarenko talks about the creation of the now famous series City of Shadows, in particular the crowd images created at Vasileostrovskaya metro station, the only station that connects Vasilyevsky Island to the center of the city. In 1991-1992, the years just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the city’s transportation system was paralyzed—except for the metro. Crowds of people would make their way to the only functioning escalator. Titarenko intuitively captured the scene by opening the shutter and not closing it. In this way, he was successful in capturing, through purely photographic means, the atmosphere of chaos and devastation, as well as the emotional state he experienced at the moment. Please click here to read the interview. 

We are excited to share that the landmark retrospective exhibition Alexey Titarenko: City of Shadows opens Thursday 15 April at the renowned State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO in St. Petersburg, Russia. The exhibition is the first retrospective of the photographer’s works in St. Petersburg, marking a symbolic return of the artist’s works to the city.

As ROSPHOTO writes, “Alexey Titarenko is one of the most renowned representatives of Russian and St. Petersburg photography of the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. The exhibition includes 61 photographs, executed in the unique technique of silver gelatin hand printing, inviting the audience to trace the creative journey of the artist, starting with his most popular series, made in St. Petersburg: City of Shadows (1992–1994), Black and White Magic of St. Petersburg (1995–1997), Frozen Time [Time Standing Still] (1998­–2000), and also series dedicated to other cities: Venice (2001–2014), Havana (2003, 2006), and New York (2004–2018)."

We are excited to announce that Alexey Titarenko will be the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, titled City of Shadows and on view Saturday 5 September through Sunday 18 October as part of the Moscow Photobiennale. The exhibition includes over sixty photographs from the past thirty years of Titarenko's career, including work from St. Petersburg, Venice, Havana, and New York. Please click the link below to read the press release and view selected images from the show. 

We are pleased to share that Alexey Titarenko is the subject of an exhibition at Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo in Baden, Austria, on view 14 July - 26 October 2020. The largest outdoor festival in Europe, Festival Photo La Gacilly-Baden is entering its third year and is focused on photography that explores humanistic topics and the relationship between people and their environment. On view is work from Titarenko's series Nomenklatura of Signs and from his series made in St. Petersburg from 1991-2000, during and just after the fall of the Soviet Union. The exhibition is in collaboration with Camera Obscura Gallery in Paris.

We are pleased to share that Alexey Titarenko's work will be included in the Museum of the City of New York's upcoming exhibition Collecting New York's Stories, which features highlights drawn from recent additions to the Museum’s permanent collection running the gamut from the colonial era to the recent past. A gallery of historic and contemporary photographs, opening Saturday 21 December 2019, showcases works by both well-known and emerging artists, including Bruce Davidson, Helen Levitt, Ruddy Roye, Titarenko, and others. A companion gallery, opening Wednesday 22 January 2020, presents original drawings by long-time New Yorker illustrator Saul Steinberg alongside artifacts that speak to the everyday life of the city.

We are pleased to announce that the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired a selection of prints from Titarenko’s Havana series for its permanent collection. The Harn is one of the largest university art museums in the South, with a permanent collection of more than 11,300 objects from Asian, African, modern and contemporary art, as well as photography.

Pentti Sammallahti recently released his newest monograph, Des Oiseaux (Xavier Barral, 2018). Fascinated by the idea of flight and exploration, Des Oiseaux focuses on the theme of birds. Critic Francesco Zanot comments, “the photographer looks at birds with tenderness and curiosity, a gaze which underlies fantasy and a “surrealistic” approach.” The book can be purchased here, for € 35.00.

Denis Brihat newest monograph, Les Métamorphoses de l’argentique (Le Bec en l’air, 2018),  includes photographs of nature spanning the artist’s near 60-year career. The book also coincides with Brihat’s 90th birthday, which the artist celebrated last spring. Les Métamorphoses de l'argentique can be ordered here.

Alexey Titarenko’s Store 59, 1994, from the series, “City of Shadows” was featured in the November edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. The photograph was used to illustrate the article, “Le visage antisocial de Vladimir Poutine: brutale reforme des retraites en Russie” (The anti-worker face of Vladimir Putin: brutal reform in Russia.)

Poet August Kleinzahler writes about George Tice's photographs: "William Carlos Williams, inevitably, comes up in discussions of Tice, being, in his own work, very much rooted in New Jersey, particularly East Rutherford and Paterson. When Manhattan does make an appearance, the great metropolis is usually viewed across the Hudson River from the Jersey side. The two artists also work the same patch aesthetically. They are both keen on documentary, getting it down, the truth of it, without adornment. Both men are interested in the vernacular, in the larger sense of the terrm and in the lives and habitats of working men and women: architecture, speech, subject matter. Some might characterise them as fetishizing the ordinary. As someone from that neighborhood, I'd say that they are after what claims their attention most vividly, what's in front of them, staring back at them."

We are delighted that MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy; has recently acquired a selection of Alexey Titarenko’s photographs from the series, City of Shadows. Titarenko’s artwork will be exhibited in their upcoming show, Pendulum: Moving Goods, Moving People. Organized on the occasion of MAST's fifth anniversary, Pendulum showcases photographs from across the foundation's permanent collection. The exhibition is on view October 4 - January 13.

"Rhoney is obsessed with luminosity. With a photographer’s eye for the split-second and a painter’s gift for suggesting the eternal, Rhoney transmutes her gelatin silver photographs into scenes we don’t so much see in real life as conjure from our memories. With the lightest touch of transparent oil paints applied to B&W prints captured from the 1970’s to the present, Rhoney’s delightful inventiveness evokes what your mind’s eye dreams in those rare moments when the world glows around you."

Alexey Titarenko is a part of The Short Story of Photography (2018: Laurence King Publishing) edited by Haydyn Smith. The book is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of photography. Simply constructed, it explores 50 key photographs from the first experiments in the early ninteenth century to digital photography. Accessible and concise, the book explains how, why and when certain photographs really have changed the world. It demystifies technical jargon, giving readers a thorough understanding and broad enjoyment of photography since its creation. Smith highlights Titarenko’s experimentation with long exposure, as exemplified in the 1992 Vasileostrovskaya Metro Station (Crowd 1). In this photograph, long exposure transforms the human figures entering the subway into ghostly shadows to express anxieties of 1990s Saint Petersburg.

Nicholas Hughes’s 2017 monograph Nowhere Far (GOST books) received glowing reviews in the online photography publication Feature Shoot. Hughes’s book has been fifteen years in the making and compiles his hand-printed photographs of land, sea, and atmosphere — both near and far from his home in North Wales. In the review, Ellyn Kail says about Hughes’s choice of title," His words, like his photographs, lure us into a state of false understanding. We recognize the trees, the sun, the moon, the clouds, but it’s whatever lies beyond them that drags us back for another look."

Alexey Titarenko was recently included in a list of the world’s 52 most influential street photographers. The list was put together by the popular Vancouver photography website “Streets I Have Walked.” Included in the list are photographers past and present who have shaped street photography historically, technically, or artistically. The list is regularly edited based on changing tastes and is open to suggestions from the public.

Collector Loring Knoblauch reviewed the gallery's current exhibition, Boris Ignatovich: Master of Russian Avant-Garde Photography: "The consistency of Ignatovich’s innovative visual language is what stands out here. He repeatedly turned the ordinary into something infused with the momentum of a fresh perspective, and while the long arm of history has dismantled the tenets of the societal framework he was working within, his images remain rich in their embodiment of that enthusiastic vantage point. This understated show is a solid art historical gap filler, putting the underknown Ignatovich in his rightful place in the Constructivist pantheon."

A selection of Alexey Titarenko’s photographs are included in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Baltimore Art Museum; and the Denver Art Museum.  His photographs was also exhibited in The Soviet Century: 100 Years of the Russian Revolution, at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, on view from September 5 - December 10, 2017, and in Commemorating the Russian Revolution, at the Zimmerli Art Museum, on view from October 14, 2017 - February 18, 2018. 

Nicholas Hughes’s recently published monograph Nowhere Far is receiving a wonderful response, including an article in The Guardian last month. Nowhere Far reflects Hughes concern for humanity’s relationship with nature — how humans both destroy and find inspiration from their natural surroundings. The Guardian writes about In Darkness Visible (Verse I), no 14 (2007), “while reflecting on man’s folly in images of great turbulence and destruction, he also provides hope that the Earth will heal itself.”

Nailya Alexander is participating in Paris Photo 2017 at Stand A30. The fair unites 190 exhibitors and thousands of photographs from around the world. This year, Nailya Alexander is showing a selection from the current exhibition Russian Photography After the Revolution, as well as photographs by contemporary Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko. The regular Manhattan gallery location will remain open during the fair, which takes place from November 9th through the 12th at the Grand Palais.

The New York Times recently selected the Nailya Alexander Gallery’s current exhibition Russian Photography After the Revolution as one of four shows to see in New York. In commemoration of the centennial of the Russian Revolution, the exhibition highlights the rich experimentation by Soviet photographers during the 1920s and 1930s. Included in the exhibition are such Soviet masters as Alexander Rodchenko, Boris Ignatovich, and Arkady Shaikhet.

New York Times critic Jason Farago wrote: “We all know what became of the Russian Revolution, and how the avant-garde vision of the 1920s and ’30s was crushed in the vise of Zhdanovite propaganda. But to believe in the future as these photographers did — to have an artistic vocation greater than narcissistic individualism or ceaseless critique — appears more enviable than pitiable in a new century of downscaled dreams.”

We are pleased to announce that this season the Museum of the City of New York has acquired a selection of photographs by contemporary Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko. The photographs are part of Titarenko’s New York series, shot between 2004 and 2017. 

In 2015 Museum of the City of New York Curator of Prints and Photographs Sean Corcoran wrote of the series: "For Titarenko, each city and its people dictate the image he creates. His images reflect his attempt to reach a deeper understanding of place through the effects of history. It should not be surprising, then, that Titarenko’s vision of New York resonates with the work of Alvin Langdon Coburn and Alfred Stieglitz — men who strived to embody the dynamism of the city and its people in photographs at the turn of the twentieth century. As Titarenko’s relationship with New York grows and changes, so too will the photographs he creates."

Pentti Sammallahti is currently the subject of a retrospective at Stimultania Pôle de photographie in Strasbourg, France, on view through 26 November 2017. The exhibition, titled Ici au loin (Here Far Away) after his acclaimed monograph of the same name, covers over four decades of the photographer's work in dozens of countries around the world.

In its October 4 review, L'Oeil de la Photographie writes, "A gleaner of landscapes wild, transformed, unusual—Pentti Sammallahti reveals a fragile universe that is harmoniously composed. In a monochromatic treatment and with the same artistic strength, the horizons of the Baltic Sea, South Africa, and Namibia blend together...The finesse of this Finnish photographer’s execution, his printing technicality, and his personal poetry combine in intense frescos of bucolic landscapes where humans and objects lose themselves in this abundant, surreal, and melancholic nature."

This beautiful limited-edition monograph from gallery artist Nicholas Hughes is now available to pre-order. Nowhere Far will include work from six series produced over the past fifteen years, as well as a foreword by Brett Rogers, director of the The Photographers' Gallery, London; an essay by Martin Barnes, senior curator of Photography at the V&A Museum; and an essay by novelist Jay Griffiths. Visit the Kickstarter at the link below to pre-order your copy between now and Wednesday 9 August.

"Nailya Alexander Gallery’s midsummer show is humming with heat and tranquility. The photographs, mostly black-and-white, work beautifully together, balancing soporific gray hues and high contrast lighting to achieve a feeling of otherworldliness. The works are as much about quiet seclusion as they are about the mental transcendence it allows for...The show’s seven photographers are connected by their distinctive artistic processes, which extend beyond conventional shooting and printing. Alexey Titarenko, George Tice, Pentti Sammallahti, and Sumner Wells Hatch are masterful dark room printers who employ unusual printing techniques to alter color and light while developing their own work."

Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel opened last night at Spazio Damiani in Bologna, Italy, which was inaugurated in June 2016 as a new facet of the renowned publishing company Damiani editore.

The exhibition, on view through 15 September, features gelatin-silver prints, printed by the artist, from throughout his three-decade career in Venice, New York, and his native St. Petersburg. The City is a Novel is also the title of Titarenko's monograph, published by Damiani in 2015 and available for sale both through the publisher and through Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York.

Please join us on Saturday, April 29 for the Madison Avenue Gallery Walk, a chance to visit the many galleries located on Madison Avenue and its adjacent side streets from East 57th up to East 86th Street. Held on the Saturday preceding Frieze New York and the TEFAF New York fairs, the Madison Avenue Gallery Walk features over sixy curator and artist talks at participating galleries. 

We will be hosting a talk at 4:00 PM with art historian Dmitry Kiyan, who will discuss Alexey Titarenko's career and the work in our current show, Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel. The event is free and open to the public.

Please visit the website of Studio International to read a new interview with Titarenko and art historian Natasha Kurchanova, in which he discusses his life in the Soviet Union, his early photographic experiments, the writers and filmmakers who have influenced his work, and more.

"When I was a boy, I walked along the city streets, and some things around me – such as buildings, their architectural details and smells – elicited feelings of delight, euphoria, emotional excitement and inspiration. They were responsible for creating a special state in my soul...When I was given a camera at eight years of age, I said to myself that it was precisely the kind of instrument I could use to help me preserve these fleeting moments of the condition of my soul. I could make them last longer, and return to them over and over again. I took my camera and went to after-school photography classes for children at the Kirov Palace of Culture on Vasilyevsky Island, St Petersburg and, little by little, I learned to use it."

We are pleased to announce that we will be participating this year for the first time in the PGH Photo Fair, now in its fifth edition, at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The fair will be held April 29-30, 2017 in the Hall of Sculpture, and will host thirteen internationally renowned photography dealers and projects whose work spans the history of the medium, from nineteenth-century vintage prints to contemporary photography and photobooks.

We are excited to be participating in the 37th edition of The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, taking place from March 30 through April 2 at Pier 94 in New York. Nailya Alexander Gallery will be exhibiting in Booth 706. We will be featuring rare, large-scale photographs by Boris Ignatovich (1899-1976) and Arkady Shaikhet (1898-1959), many of which have never before been exhibited. Also on view in our booth will be work by Alexey Titarenko (b. 1962, St. Petersburg), Pentti Sammallahti (b. 1950, Helsinki), Denis Brihat (b. 1928, Paris), and Marcia Lippman.

Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel will be open by appointment for the duration of AIPAD.

"In Russia, all the animals are free – horses, dogs and cats, all of them walking everywhere. I was living in the only small guesthouse on the island, and one morning I was having breakfast and looked up to see a dog walking along, carrying a bag. I was told that the dog was owned by a lonely, legless man, who dispatched it every morning to the only shop on the island. In the bag was a shopping list, and the dog walked some kilometres to the shop, gave the bag to the saleswoman, who put the groceries in the bag, and the dog went back with it. Usually, I heard, the list was just bread and vodka."

Alexey Titarenko will be holding a lecture, Q&A, and book signing at Soho Photo on Thursday, December 8 from 6:00-7:30 PM. Titarenko will be discussing his series City of Shadows, and will be selling and signing copies of his sold-out monograph The City is a Novel (Damiani, 2015). The event is free and open to the public.

Works by Pentti Sammallahti and Nicholas Hughes will be on view this Friday, November 18 through Sunday, January 15 at The Photographers' Gallery in London. The exhibition When frost was spectre-grey takes its name from the poem The Darkling Thrush (1899) by Thomas Hardy, and also features work by photographers Evgenia Arbugaeva, Tamas Dezso, Paul Hart, Martina Lindqvist, and Simon Roberts. Shown at right: Pentti Sammallahti, Finland, 2016. 

We are pleased to announce that Alexey Titarenko will be signing copies of his monograph The City is a Novel (Damiani, 2015) at this year's edition of Paris Photo, the 20th anniversary of the fair. The book signing will take place on Friday, November 11 at 6:00 PM in Damiani's booth, H9.

The City is a Novel is the first major publication devoted to Titarenko's thirty-year career, and features over 140 photographs of Titarenko's work in St. Petersburg, Venice, Havana, and New York. The monograph also includes essays by curator, writer, and art historian Gabriel Bauret; Brett Abbott, curator of photography at the High Museum of Art; and Sean Corcoran, curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, as well as an autobiographical essay by Titarenko himself. The book was selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best photobooks of 2015.

William Meyers: Civics is on view through Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Pictured at right: Listening to the candidate, Rego Park, Queens, August 25, 2011.

Published today on the blog of cinematographer and director John Bailey, ASC: "Denis Brihat's Humble Onions," a thoughtful overview of Brihat's life and career and an investigation of a question that has dogged many a student of Brihat's remarkable œuvre: why onions?  

Bailey writes, "What distinguishes Brihat’s studies from Weston’s is not the level of craftsmanship of the print  — they are comparable — but the sense of “aliveness” in Brihat’s work. You can almost feel his subjects pulsating as they “pose,” whereas Weston’s still lives of vegetables or fruit appear lifeless, justifying the French expressionnatures mortes...The onion we eat is only a small part of its being: the root, the only part we tend to see in our deracinated experience of sorting through onions in the supermarket bins. What Brihat photographs is the whole onion, pulled from the soil with root tendrils and dirt still attached, and onions that are left to dry as new growth breaks through the bulb, reminding us that even in its d(r)ying state, it is vibrantly alive."

Alexey Titarenko is the subject of this month's Photographer Spotlight in the Los Angeles Review of Books.  

Producer Michael Kurcfeld writes, "If Titarenko’s art is germinated by, as he says, 'moments of moral and physical euphoria,' even while reflecting the arc of oppression in Russia, his images paint a ghostly world inhabited by spirits rather than corporeal beings. He uses a kind of blur distortion that makes one think of Francis Bacon at his most hallucinatory — more a psychological landscape than a concrete one. In his St. Petersburg, life is seen as energy, as flux, though embodied in men and women bent with fatigue and, sometimes, despair...These moods appear in the subterfuge of lights and shadows from which he refashions them, each image in fact uniquely handmade in the darkroom, never precisely replicated."

Vince Aletti writes of Sammallahti's work in the exhibition "Another North: Landscape Reimagined," on view through 6 August at Scandinavia House: "In Pentti Sammallahti’s intimate black-and-white photographs, the Finnish countryside becomes a fairy-tale backdrop for characters including a frog and a white rabbit."

We are pleased to announce that photographer Jane Hilton will be included in the exhibition Scarlet Muse: Photography and Prostitution, opening Thursday 9 June at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York. Photographs from Hilton's acclaimed series Precious will be shown alongside the work of Eugène Atget, E. J. Bellocq, Brassaï, Larry Clark, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and Danny Lyon, among others. The exhibition is on view through 22 July.

Nailya Alexander Gallery and Photo London are pleased to present a special screening of Alexey Titarenko: Art et la Manière, a documentary by Rebecca Houzel about Russian-born photographer Alexey Titarenko, produced by Image & Compagnie for the French-German TV network ARTE. The film will be shown in the screening room at Somerset House on Saturday 21 May from 4-5 PM, and will be followed by a Q&A with Titarenko and Jim Casper, director of LensCulture.

At 5.15 pm, following the Q&A, Titarenko will be signing copies of his new monograph, The City is a Novel, published by Damiani and recently selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of their best photobooks of 2015. The signing will take place in Fernandez & Wells in the East Wing of Somerset House.

Alexey Titarenko is the subject of the first episode of filmmaker Ted Forbes' new documentary series. Click the link below to watch on Youtube. 

“On that first visit, I couldn’t believe the poster targets. They were extraordinary, non-PC targets, all beautifully done – characters that looked like Muslims, a thuggish-type burglar, a man with a hostage. All the people that go choose what they want to shoot at….To me it was a bigger statement to interview the shooters, take away the targets that they’d shot at, and bring them back to London and photograph them. I felt it was a more interesting comment on American gun culture to see what damage it can do to a body than any photo of a man and a kid holding a gun."

"At a fair like this, the best moments usually come from an unexpected discovery. The grouping of landscapes by the prodigiously gifted Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti, which are exhibited by Nailya Alexander, are distillations of mood and mist. In the spirit of André Kertész, Mr. Sammallahti’s photographs manage to be lyrical without dissolving into sentimentality. They left me wanting more."

Please join us at the AIPAD Photography Show in Booth 117 at the Park Ave Armory, New York, from Thursday, April 14 through Sunday, April 17, 2016. We will be featuring photographs by Denis Brihat, George Tice, Alexey Titarenko, Annemarie Heinrich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Pentti Sammallahti.

We invite you to visit our booth on Saturday, April 16 from 3:00-5:00 PM for a book signing with Alexey Titarenko. Titarenko will be signing copies of his new monograph The City is a Novel, published in Italy by Damiani editore and selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best photobooks of 2015.

"Their first meeting was in 1959, when, for professional reasons, Denis Brihat had contacted Labonicol, the photo lab founded by Claudine and Jean-Pierre Sudre. They hit it off straight away: Claudine, Jean-Pierre and Denis. In photography, their paths criss-crossed until the deaths, first, of Jean-Pierre, then Claudine...They meet again in 2016, showing in New York in the same building, Jean-Pierre Sudre at Tom Gittermann Gallery, Denis Brihat at Nailya Alexander Gallery, almost 50 years after their first joint exhibition, with Pierre Cordier, in NY at MoMA at the invitation of John Szarkowski."

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” as the old adage proclaims, but in the case of fine art photographer Denis Brihat, beauty is in the eye of anybody who choose to share, however momentarily, his unique perspective on the world around him. Over the course of his 70 year career, Denis Brihat developed his own format – that of the ‘photographic painting’ – through which he created a nuanced and dedicated series of images of the under-loved and the overlooked in everyday life – whether that be the cracked, peeling skin of an ordinary shallot or the delicate petals of a common poppy."

Curator, writer, and art historian Gabriel Bauret writes, "Titarenko’s photography does not reduce itself to the mere capturing of an instant. While printing in the darkroom, he combines different sources of light and selectively tones his prints to achieve subtle nuances of color. Also important to note that the work done in the lab  is never twice the same: each print is as unique as the shot...If a city is the privileged territory of a novel, even with a relatively autobiographical dimension, the city can also be an inspiration for artistic expression. Alexey Titarenko has combined the two approaches."

"Heinrich began her career as an apprentice to European émigré photographers. In 1930, at the age of eighteen, she set up her first studio in Buenos Aires. Surrounded by artists of every discipline – celebrities, film and radio stars, opera singers, ballerinas, tango dancers, and writers – Heinrich was central to the development and popularization of a new kind of photograph: the celebrity portrait...Heinrich’s work as a celebrity portraitist and professional photographer is supplemented by an extraordinary series, Desnudos (Nudes), which she began as early as 1934. Heinrich’s nudes demonstrate not only her thoroughly modern understanding of the female form, but also her technical mastery and attention to light. Rarely exhibited during her lifetime, these photographs are all the more remarkable for having been produced in almost total isolation from emerging trends in nude photography in Europe."

William Meyers writes, "Annemarie Heinrich (1912-2005) was born in Germany, moved to Argentina in 1926, and early on was among the country’s artistic and entertainment celebrities. Alexander will be showing Heinrich’s imaginative portraits of beauties Beba Bidart, Florence Marly and Eliza Christian Galve—the first doubled, the second with a distorted reflection, and the third partially obscured. There are also portraits of cultural figures Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and Marian Anderson; dancers Anthony Tudor and Serge Lifar; and seven female nudes distinguished by their modernist composition and theatrical lighting."

William Meyers writes, "Mr. Titarenko’s pictures of St. Petersburg, Venice, Havana, and New York are not about the buildings, streets and parks of those cities per se, but about them as sites of narrative. In most of these images one feels the setting is a place where something has happened, or is happening, or is going to happen; there is a theatricality about them. The technical device Mr. Titarenko uses to achieve this effect is the long exposure, keeping the lens open so that moving figures are blurred, sometimes appearing almost as wraiths. He is also a brilliant printer, able to control the tonal values in his prints to emphasize and deemphasize particular elements. In an affecting autobiographical essay he tells how reading Dostoevsky and listening to Shostakovich freed him from the Soviet mindset to become truly creative."