Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics:
Part 3 - Contemporary Photographers Exhibition 1
© Anatoly Makienko
Anatoly Makienko
Anatoly Makienko (b. 1949) joined the Vremya group in 1974, after it had been active for a few years (See exhibtion 2 Makienko’s 1985 - 2000 work.)
His Untitled 2008 project is actually three vertical tryptichs (1 - 3, 4 - 6 and 7 - 9 images), each shot from one standpoint at upward, straight and downward shooting angles. This conceptual approach shows a place / location’s different pictorial potentials. But, according to the artist, when the three tryptichs are juxtaposed in one panel, the visual relationships between images in horizontal rows become essential, even though not easily verbalized.
All in all, Makienko’s project offers a novel variation of popular Kharkiv School approach of multiple representation (Boris Mikhailov’s Twos and Fours , some of Vladimir Starko’s images, Victor Kochetov’s Take Two, and Misha Pedan’s Stereo_typ, etc.).
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