Alexey Titarenko

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alexey Titarenko
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Nov 25, 1962(1962-11-25)
Age	62
Birthplace	Saint Petersburg
Country	Soviet Union
Birth City	Saint Petersburg
Horoscope	Capricorn

Alexey Titarenko Biography

Alexey Titarenko is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on November 25, 1962 in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union. Alexey (Aleksey) Viktorovich Titarenko (Russian: Алексей Викторович Титаренко ; born 1962) is a Russian (and later, a naturalized American) photographer and artist.

Along with Alexander Sokurov’s 2002 film Russian Ark, the City of Shadows exhibition (which now included photographs from the mid and late 1990s inspired by Dostoevsky’s novels) was a part of the program celebrating the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg at the 2003 Clifford Symposium, in Middlebury, VT: What Became of Peter’s Dream? Petersburg in History and Arts The Russian Ark and the City of Shadows have one similarity: both are based on the experimental innovation: Alexander Sokurov using a single, very long – 96 minutes sequence shot and Titarenko’s several minutes long exposure for some of his photographs.

Titarenko became a naturalized United States citizen in 2011; and, as of 2014, lives and works in New York City as an artist, photographer, and printer.

A 2011 exhibition of 15 gelatin silver prints from his Havana, Cuba series (2003-2006) in the J. Paul Getty Museum group show, A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now, linked Titarenko’s approach to street photography in contemporary Havana to that of Walker Evans in 1933, by the subjects he photographed and aspects of his printing.

In his photographs from Venice, mostly taken between 2001 and 2008, Titarenko uses “… a highly stylized technic that he put deftly in a service of strongly determined vision.”Moreover, “Venice also offers him a reminiscence of Saint Petersburg, similar to a recollection found in the work of Marcel Proust, who, in Albertine disparue (The Fugitive), recounts during his Venetian sojourn that he cannot resist comparisons to Combray.” Venice, Italy creates a counterbalance, a point of comparison with Venice of the North where he was born – Saint Petersburg. In Titarenko’s photographs, like in Proust’s writings, ” … what matters is less the scrupulous description of reality than a particular vision it renders.”

Alexey Titarenko Net Worth

Alexey Titarenko is one of the richest Photographer from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alexey Titarenko 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Influenced by the Russian avant-garde works of Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko and the Dada art movement (from the early 20th century), his series of collages, photomontages and images created by superposing several negatives, Nomenklatura of Signs (first exhibited only in 1988, in Leningrad) is a commentary on the Communist regime as an oppressive system that converts citizens into mere signs. In 1989, Nomenklatura of Signs was included in Photostroika, a major show of new Soviet photography that toured the US.

During and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991–1992, he produced several series of photographs about the human condition of ordinary people living on its territory and the suffering they endured then and throughout the twentieth century. To illustrate links between the present and the past, he created metaphors by introducing long exposure and intentional camera movement into street photography. Sources have noted that his most important innovation is the way he uses long exposure. John Bailey, in his essay about Garry Winogrand and Titarenko, mentioned that one of the obstacles that he surmounted successfully was being too visible himself and, as a consequence, people’s possible reaction to his presence altering the authenticity of the image.

Through interviews, lectures, books, curated exhibitions and two documentaries by French-German TV channel Arte (2004, 2005), Titarenko describes a particular vision of an artist and of Art, close to that of Marcel Proust, linked to literature, poetry and classical music (especially that of Dmitri Shostakovich), placing himself far apart from contemporary tendencies developing particularly in Moscow.

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Alexey Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Soviet Union. Alexey Titarenko celebrates birthday on November 25 of every year.

What is Alexey Titarenko known for?

Alexey Titarenko is a Russian American artist. He began taking photographs at the beginning of the 1970s, and in 1978 became a member of the well-known Leningrad photographic club Zerkalo, where he had his first solo exhibition (1978).

What is Alexey Titarenko inspired by?

Inspired by the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky , he also translated Dostoevsky’s version of the Russian soul into sometimes poetic, sometimes dramatic pictures of his native city, Saint Petersburg. Titarenko’s St. Petersburg body of work from the 1990s won him worldwide recognition.

How does Alexey Titarenko take his photos?

He decided to take photos of it using a shutter speed several minutes long. Alexey Titarenko adds hints of color to emphasize the emotion of his scenes. “What’s important is how we feel,” he says. In the resulting images, the crowd blurs into a ghostly mass, but certain forms remain visible.

What is unique about photographer Alexey Titarenko and his work?

As a result, Titarenko has developed a unique style, “ metaphorical photography ,” defined by the third dimension, that of time. By translating time into a purely photographic language, he exposes the frailty of human existence and reveals those precious moments in life that move our soul.

What is a metaphor in photography?

Actually, a photograph is a metaphor, a figurative expression that is based on a comparison. The photographic representation of reality is a metaphorical image of another reality, which remains visually absent.