Kontrastid olid tohutud

The Estonian Literary Museum’s photographer Alar Madisson (b. 17.03.1954) is an idea-photographer; from his ideas was born the first outdoor exhibition of University of Tartu professors. For years, in a completely different version, this idea has returned the gaze of the spectator with hundreds of eyes from the end wall of the oldest building of the Estonian Literary Museum. From the photo windows one can encounter the gaze of good-humoured writers from Estonia and Tartu, but the exhibition is even broader: it includes writing folk ranging from literati to poets, with professors among them. Last year and this year Alar Madisson has opened thematic photography exhibitions in Estonian galleries in several places. The large-scale exhibition “Half an Hour with a Writer” was unveiled in the Narva main library, but this offered a very good opportunity to go back in time and recall another photography exhibition – the travels of Estonian (Tartu) and German (Aachen) photographers in east Virumaa in 1999 with exciting photographs that stopped the flow of time and that help us remember the landscape that once was.