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"Only when you see the misery in the picture, you begin to perceive it on the road." (© Boris MIKHAILOV)
"For Boris MIKHAILOV, social change is most evident in everyday life, when in Soviet times waiters in Ukraine asked, 'Tea or coffee?', The question today is 'Tea, coffee, cappuccino?'
Boris MIKHAILOV deals with these changes and - as in 'Am Boden / Dämmerung' (Oktagon, 1996) - keeps his everyday life in his hometown Kharkov.
In the more than 200 color photographs, the West is noticeable everywhere in the form of large colorful banners, but the salvation promises of the 'Orange Revolution' have come true only for the few.
By not glossing over anything, not clarifying anything, Boris MIKHAILOV wants to sensitize the viewer's gaze.
The individual images and scenes make up a large social tableau that tells us more about Ukraine and its inhabitants than any television documentary." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2011)
"For Boris MIKHAILOV, social change is most evident in everyday life, when in Soviet times waiters in Ukraine asked, 'Tea or coffee?', The question today is 'Tea, coffee, cappuccino?'
Boris MIKHAILOV deals with these changes and - as in 'Am Boden / Dämmerung' (Oktagon, 1996) - keeps his everyday life in his hometown Kharkov.
In the more than 200 color photographs, the West is noticeable everywhere in the form of large colorful banners, but the salvation promises of the 'Orange Revolution' have come true only for the few.
By not glossing over anything, not clarifying anything, Boris MIKHAILOV wants to sensitize the viewer's gaze.
The individual images and scenes make up a large social tableau that tells us more about Ukraine and its inhabitants than any television documentary." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2011)
- Photographer(s)
- Boris MIKHAILOV UKR
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 20,5 x 3 cm., 238 pp., color ills.
- Language(s)
- English
- Year of Release
- 2011
- Publisher
- Koenig, Cologne
- Print run details
- out of print, 1st print run