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Photographer Valentin 'Til Maria Samarin grew Leningrad child prodigy in the evacuation graduated four classes for one year, he entered the engineering college, switched to Fizmatgiz, Moscow University, then to morehodku, returned to the University on a philosophical, served in the Army in Germany, graduated from the pedagogical and theatrical .

In 1956 he organized a discussion on Picasso in the square at the Russian Museum, and then circulated a leaflet about the violation of freedoms in the Soviet Union, and nearly two years, caught in a terrible prison psychiatric hospital on Arsenal Street.
There he realized that the moment of artistic vision of the world can go beyond its real image, which was the basis for the future of his philosophy of "art-sled."
Seeing the ballet by Leonid Jakobson, mesmerized his synthetism, Thiel realized that the direct picture does not convey the mysteries of movement and human presence, and walked away.

His method of "spontaneous photography" meant not only the lack of control when shooting, but also "the maximum of degrees of freedom" when printing a frame where none of the prints can not be repeated.
Thiel passed for an unusual figure even eccentric background Leningrad underground 70's.
He quickly appeared at the opening of the "second culture" and photographed, the camera held high above his head.
In exactly the same as the moved into the 81-m in Paris, where he continued to shoot ballet, portraits and landscapes of local bohemians.

Together with a tail (Alexei Khvostenko) Til organized in Paris is not one feature skvat (his first experience was a Cyril and Methodius Church in St. Petersburg), and then the Russian club Simpozion.
A year ago, Thiel was a retrospective at the Russian Museum exhibition yesterday, the father of our fotoabstraktsii opened at the Museum Tsereteli Petrovka.