num_pages: 128
description: Boris Mikhailov (b.1938) is the former Soviet Union's most influential living photographer. His varied photographic strategies reveal not only a rich imagination but also practical solutions for survival. His work questions how an artist can position himself in a defeated, dying world. Other artists in this series Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin
language: English
title: Boris Mikhailov
titlecomplete: Boris Mikhailov (Phaidon 55S)
genres: Art, Photography
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Phaidon Press