Boris Michailow - Die Unvollendete Dissertation ("Unfinished Dissertation") - 1998

IMPORTANT PHOTOBOOK by famous Ukrainian photographer and artist Boris Mikhailov:
- The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, Stockholm, page 376/377
- 802 photobooks from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 746

WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL GERMAN PRINTING.
Published simultanously and identically in layout, size and content with the first English edition ("The Unfinished Dissertation").

Born 1938 in the former Soviet Union Boris Mikhailov lived and worked for several decades in his hometown Kharkov, Ukraine. He received an education as an engineer and started to teach himself the practice of photography. Today he is one of the most successful and well-known photographers, who already was actively working in soviet times. His work very much is influenced in the means of Concept-Art and Social-Documentary-Photography. At the end of the 1960s he had his first exhibition. After the KGB found nude-pictures of his wife he was set off his job as an engineer and started to full-time work with photography. He shot a series of everyday-life scenes-documentation.

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Scalo, Zurich, Berlin, New York. 1998. First German edition, first printing.

Paper covered boards with photographic dustjacket. 230 x 280 mm. 220 pages. Photos: Postface by Margarita Tupitsyn. Black and white photographs. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, very fresh and flawless; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; small surface paper loss at the bottom right corner of the front (from a deleted price sticker), no other remarkable flaws or defects. Overall fine condition.

Great, sought-after photobook by Boris Mikhailov - with original dustjacket.

Mikhailov (Michailov, Mikhailov, Mikhailow) is well-known for many famous photobooks. Beside "Unfinished Dissertation" also for "By the ground. At dusk." or "Case History" (all mentioned in Martin Parr, The Photobook). Born in the former Soviet Union Boris Mikhailov (born 1938) lived and worked for several decades in his hometown Kharkov, Ukraine. He received an education as an engineer and started to teach himself the practice of photography. Today he is one of the most successful and well-known photographers, who already was actively working in soviet times. His work very much is influenced in the means of Concept-Art and Social-Documentary-Photography. At the end of the 1960s he had his first exhibition. After the KGB found nude-pictures of his wife he was set off his job as an engineer and started to full-time work with photography. He shot a series of everyday-life scenes-documentation.