Kalju Suur
Photo's of Peeter Mudist
| Artist: | Kalju Suur |
| Title: | Photo's of Peeter Mudist |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Technique: Material: |
black and white photo photo paper |
| Height (cm): | 38.0 |
| Width (cm): | 25.5 |
| Description: | Having worked as a photographer with the newspaper “Sirp", and later as a freelancer, Kalju Suur has over the course of years photographed hundreds of people from Estonian cultural circles - writers, artists, composers, actors. He does not focus on a person in an abstract way, but instead takes every model as an individual, trying to capture a moment that might last only for a couple of seconds but is essential to the personality of each particular person. “Kalju Suur challenges modern photographers who are interested in formal experiment and manipulation of subjects. He confronts the demonstratively calm and favourable concept of a person with the destructive and playful."* “I was heading to a bus stop from Kuku Café. Near St. John’s Church, Piret Kerem rushed up to me and said: 'Peeter sent me to ask if you’d like us to drive you home?' During times of illness I easily grow sentimental: I almost burst into tears. In the car they told me that they often go to the seashore to get some air. 'Let’s drive, I have my camera with me,' I proposed. The stop at the high cliff in Rocca al Mare provided a chance to take pictures. Whenever Peeter stepped really close to the edge of the cliff, I did not dare to click the camera button. Piret laughed: 'You’ll have to get used to him.' A few weeks later in early October we drove to Suurupi beach. They both scurried easily down the high cliff, which dropped at about a 60 degree angle. 'There are no trees or bushes on the way, I cannot come down,' I helplessly told them. Quick as squirrels, they both climbed back up. We drove a few hundred meters further; there the slope was more gentle and I could also fumble to the beach. Peeter was in action; once he fell and rose again, but I could not capture that. Sometimes he waited for me to catch up, but he never commanded me to take a picture. I just tried to capture the moments.” Anu Allas * Leo Gens, Foreword to Kalju Suur's photo album Silmast silma. Tallinn, 1995, p. 22. ** Kalju Suur, Foreword to the exhibition Pictures of Peeter Mudist During 1981-2002, Gallery of Masters' Courtyard, 2002. |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Contemporary Art Collection |
| Collection number: | FV 138:3 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 49700:3 |
| File info: |
File type: TIF Compression: Uncompressed File size: 39.42MB Resolution: 3036*4536px @ 300dpi |
