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Cold snaps

The great Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky always carried a Polaroid camera with him. His son, Andrei A Tarkovsky, explains the background to some of the pictures



Myasnoye

This is in Myasnoye, Russia, where my family had a holiday home.

© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved



Me and Dak

This is me and Dak in Vorobievi Gori, a park in Moscow, where we used to walk with my father.

© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved



Procession

This is the annual procession dedicated to San Gregorio, the patron saint of the city in Italy.

© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved



Mother

My mother in the dining room of our Moscow apartment.

© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved



Boat

This is my father's boat near our house in Myasnoye. He was greatly attached to that place, where he could isolate himself and work on his scripts - the first drafts of Stalker and The Sacrifice were written there. He used to take long walks and these pictures are the memories of those promenades.

© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved



Mother

My mother, Larissa Tarkovsky, and Dak in Myasnoye. You may find a lot of similarities of these pictures with Gorkachov's dreams in Nostalgia.

© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved



Myasnoye

This is the view from my father's room in the country house in Myasnoye.

© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved



Instant Light, Tarkovsky Polaroids

edited by Giovanni Chiaramonte and Andrei A. Tarkovsky, is published by Thames & Hudson on June 1 2004, priced £14.95 and available from all good bookshops or online at

www.thamesandhudson.com



