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Почти удавшаяся попытка сфотографировать этот ландшафт в момент появления очередного солнечного вихря

Pochti udavshai͡asi͡a popytka sfotografirovatʹ ėtot landshaft v moment poi͡avlenii͡a ocherednogo solnechnogo vikhri͡a

[An Almost Successful Attempt to Photograph This Landscape at the Moment of the Appearance of a Subsequent Sunlight Storm]

1996

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Photo is accompanied by text written by the artist as well as a translation of the same text into English.
ОБ ИЗМЕНИВШЕМСЯ ПОВЕДЕНИИ СОЛНЕЧНОГО СВЕТА
Мы более не имеем
непрерывного потока солнечного света.
Свет является нам
чередой мимолётных вихрей.
Мир вокруг озаряется лишь на мгновения.
Картина мира мерцает.
Но моменты просветлений и темноты
чередуются ещё слишком быстро,
чтобы мы это заметили.
Нам по-прежнему кажется,
что видимая картинка стабильна.
На самом же деле
вихри солнечного света
проносятся все реже и нерегулярней.
Темнота сгущается.
Неопределённость возрастает.
Картинка визуальная
всё больше замещается
своей умозрительной моделью.
Но догадываться об этом
мы можем только по косвенным признакам –
необъяснимым и внезапным неудачам
при фотографировании в моменты несовпадения
с очередным солнечным вихрем.
Технология нашего восприятия мира,
незаметно для нас самих,
меняется.
Изменяемся мы сами.
Последствия пока не ясны.
Игорь Савченко
Минск, февраль 1996
ON THE ALTERED BEHAVIOR OF SUNLIGHT
We no longer have
A constant flow of sunlight.
Light appears to us
As a sequence of transient storms.
Everything around us is lit up for brief instants.
The world picture shimmers.
But moments of light and darkness
Still alternate too fast,
For us to notice them.
We still believe
The visible picture is steady.
In fact the storms of sunlight
Blow past more rarely and less regularly.
Darkness has been gathering.
Uncertainty keeps growing.
The visual picture
Is gradually being replaced
By its speculative model.
But this we can only guess at
From indirect signs –
Inexplicable and sudden failures
While photographing the moments which
Miss just another sunlight storm.
We ourselves fail to notice that
Our perception of the world is changing.
We ourselves are changing.
The consequences are not yet clear.
Igor Savchenko
Minsk, February 1996
Russian-English translation: Mark Bence, and the author, 1996
Photo is a part of the series "Ob izmenivshemsi͡a povedenii solnechnogo sveta."
Thiocarbamide toner.
A scanned image of printing quality is available directly from the artist.
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Part of Igor Savchenko and Contemporary Belarusian Photography: Reimagining the Visual
This digital collection of Contemporary Belarusian Photography is the largest US-based digital archive of visual works produced in Minsk in the 1980s–2010s. The collection includes more than 1500 images of visual and textual works created by Igor Savchenko, a key participant of the socio-cultural phenomenon known as the Minsk School of Photography.
Part of Princeton Slavic Collections
Selections from Princeton’s collections of rare documents of the artistic, intellectual, social and political history of Russia, Eastern Europe and the territories of the Former Soviet Union.
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Creator of work
Савченко, Игорь
Language
Russian
English
Geographic Origin
Belarus
Geographic Subject
Belarus
Subject
Arts and culture
Arts
Literature
Photography
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