This week, Bonham’s auction house in London announced “Nostalgia: Before and After – Important Polaroids by Andrey Tarkovsky.” Set for October 6, the auction will feature 257 Polaroids by the late director, divided into 29 lots of nine and ten pictures each. Individual lots are estimated to go for between $26,000 and $50,000. The photos have never been seen by the public before.

The majority of the shots were taken while Tarkovsky was shooting “Nostalgia” (1983) in Italy and Russia in the late 70s and early 80s. They feature the same stark sense of atmospherics that that film — indeed all of Tarkovsky’s films — captured so well. Not to mention a sense of nostalgia itself — a reflection on time gone by. Read more...