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Background information, content
"The special thing about Boris MIKHAILOV as a 'book maker' is that he thinks of and develops photography in sequences, in spaces and cuts, in the forms of its montage. Viewed as a whole the books and book drafts, which often only exist as one original copy, create a retrospective of a very unique and intimate kind.
Content
In the volume 'Books / Bücher' by Boris MIKHAILOV, his artist's books 'Krymskaja Fotomanija' ('Crimean Photomania') and 'Mountains', each with 128 pages, are shown here in facsimile, interrupted by 80 pages of illustrated text. The Ukrainian photographer Boris MIKHAILOV is seen as a chronicler of the history of his Ukrainian homeland: the everyday life of the so-called 'little people' on the street, on he beach, at dances - anywhere that the politic becomes visible in the private. sing this material he develops comprehensive questionings on the onditions of human existence as well as on the history and decline of the USSR nd the consequences of this." (© Koenig)
About Ukrainian photographer Boris MIKHAILOV (b.1938, in Kharkiv)
Photo books by and with photo works by Boris MIKHAILOV
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Inka Schube
- Book design
- Hans Werner HOLZWARTH
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, 24 x 32 x 3,5 cm., 336 pp., 270 color ills, bilingual text: English & German