Boris Mikhailov. the Books
Subtitle: Structures of Madness, or Why Shepherds Living in the Mountains Often Go Crazy / Photomania in Crimea
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng; mul
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9783863353032
Subjects: Photography, artistic; Photography, exhibitions; Artists' books; Art, ukrainian
Description: Ukrainian documentary photographer Boris Mikhailov (born 1938) is internationally admired for his intense, clear-eyed depictions of his homeland, the Ukraine--most famously, his portrayals of the everyday struggles of the bomzhes, the homeless, a class that dramatically enlarged after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using this raw and emotive material, Mikhailov touches on themes ranging from the living conditions in post-communist Eastern Europe and the fallen ideals of the Soviet Union to the harsher trials of human existence. Although deeply rooted in a specific historical context, his work also narrates more accessible, personal threads of humor, lust, vulnerability, aging and death. This publication presents, in facsimile, Mikhailov's well-known artist's books Krymskaja Fotomanija (Crimean Photomania) and Mountains, each of which is 128 pages and which are here supplemented by 80 pages of informative, illustrated text.