PRESS
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• The New York Sun, Alexey Titarenko’s Venetian Style, April 24, 2008
• The New Yorker Magazine, April 7, 2008
• Hemispheres Magazine, April 2008
• The Irish Times, May 2007
• Art in America, June/July 2006
• The New York Times, March 2006
• New York The Sun, March 2006
• The New Yorker, March 2006
• The New Yorker, February 2006
• The Moscow Times, April 2004
• Lens Culture: Alexey Titarenko, April 2004
• Houston Cronicle, March 2004
• LANDSCAPE, Photographs of Time and Space, by Ferdinand Protzman
• The New York Times, October 2003
• Sadie Hoagland, September 2003
• Beaux Arts Magazine, France, February 2003
• Liberation, France, July 2002
• LA Times, August 2001
• Shots, Interview by Russell Joslin, 2005

SELLECTED QUOTATIONS FROM THE PRESS

"In 'Untitled (Old Woman Sitting on Sidewalk)' (1999), the viewer comes face to face with a chilling reality in the form of a defeated soul. A woman sits, a note in her hand, looking quite still as a dark and looming sea of humanity passes her by. Time does seem to stand still, when one is faced with great loss or adversity, and this photograph captures this moment in a truly timeless fashion."
-- D. Dominick Lombardi
THE NEW YORK TIMES


"Alexey Titarenko's intriguing photographs... instead of seizing an instant and
preserving it intact, they embrace a span of time, allowing it to pass and leave just a trace... In one especially poignant example from 1999, an older Russian woman in archetypal heavy coat, scarf and boots sits on the pavement, that seems to erode beneath her... The picture brings to mind Dorothea Lange's 'White Angel Bread Line' of 1932 in its stunning portrait of the singularity of suffering."
-- Leah Ollman
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES


"The nuances of Titarenko's prints convey solitude and arrested motion, the blurred effect of long exposures and the camera’s intentional movement... The photographs are driven by an intense interest in the esthetics of the image."
-- Edward Leffingwell
ART IN AMERICA


"Attuned to atmosphere rather than architecture, his poignant images - particularly of people - are often deliberately blurred, a metaphor for life's uncertainty. Dostoevsky, still a haunting presence in the city, is at times Mr. Titarenko's inspiration in conveying its noirish aspects. In 'Untitled (Stranger)' of 1996, two indistinct figures, seen through lines of slanting snow before a building lighted only by a basement window, make a scene right out of 'Crime and Punishment.'"
-- Grace Glueck
THE NEW YORK TIMES


"Titarenko's prints are contemporary views of the city and its people... Throughout, however, there remains a certain gentility and romance, like late Impressionist painting of rain-soaked Paris."
-- Patricia C. Johnson
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE


"Titarenko's image of St. Petersburg presents the compressed urban space as abounding in dichotomies and gray areas. In big cities, beauty and ugliness, wealth and poverty, education and ignorance, violence and serenity are never far apart."
-- Ferdinand Protzman
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC


"Alexey Titarenko's work evocatively captures a tumultuous decade in his native St. Petersburg…. [I]t is their contradictory mixture of vagueness and precision that makes [these images] exceptional."
-- Aiden Dunne
THE IRISH TIMES