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“I remember this,” Bergoltsev chuckles. “Contemporary meets old age. Now it
is I who is old.” A striking juxtaposition of modern art and what one would assume to be a conservative sensibility, this photograph demonstrates Bergoltsev’s uncanny ability to capture not just people or subjects, but moments in time; slices of ordinary life made somehow extraordinary. “When you see the lens directed on you,” he says, “you want to look much better than you are. But good photography doesn’t depend on your wish.”
Times Crossing
Warsaw 1961
When an Estonian music committee heard Charles Lloyd’s jazz quartet on Finnish radio in 1967, they invited the group to play in Tallinn, without first checking with Moscow. At the time, jazz was forbidden in the Soviet Union, though certainly not unheard. After some diplomatic maneuvering, Lloyd and his group performed at Kalevi Sport Hall on May 14, 1967. It was an event – the first time American jazz musicians were allowed to play in the USSR – worthy of the front page of the New York Times, and worthy of one of the finest Russian photographers of his time. Lloyd celebrated the 30th anniversary of the concert with a return to Tallinn in 1997.
Charles Lloyd: Art Raises
Tallinn 1967