On seven hills. Moscow in photos Ilya Catalyser.

On seven hills. Moscow in photos Ilya Catalyser.
M. Publisher Nikita Mikhalkov. 2000 272 p. Hard cover, 29.5 x 31 cm. Excellent condition.

Ilya Catalyser was born and a big part of his life in Odessa. Perhaps this fact contributes to the fact that his vision of the capital is different from all others. His look attentive and unbiased observer has already won recognition: for a series of Moscow views photographer was awarded the prize "Silver camera". This view differs primarily by the fact that he manages to capture the uniqueness and charm nesravnennost the most at first glance a textbook, sometimes the front corners of the city, which is not inferior and it corners quite untrodden, and not the front. Walking with a camera in Moscow, Catalyser manages to perceive, to grasp, to capture the essence and the nerve of a huge metropolis, which is all built on differences and contrasts of volumes and spaces, the clutter of buildings and free prospects, crowds in the streets and deserted parks and gardens, dense streams of cars and free surface water bodies - rivers and ponds. The city in his interpretation does not look like a set of flat images - on the contrary, it acquires volume, multidimensionality. In photos of Ilya Catalyser this diversity is not ephemeral, but real. In this sense, "the solid geometry of the city" takes on another hue: Moscow really lives in constant motion and it really exists in many real measurements in the historical past, in a vain present, and even in some kind of epic future.