Boris Mikhailov - Case History - 1999

ISBN10: 3908247098, [publisher: Scalo, Germany] Hardcover 18 x 25cm 478pp very good hardback in which the Ukrainian artist and photographer,examines the consequences of the breakdown of the Soviet Union for its people. He systematically took pictures of homeless people. It shows the situation of people who after the breakdown of the Soviet Union were not able to find their place in a secure social system. In a very direct way Mykhailov points out his critique against the "mask of beauty" of the emerging post-Soviet capitalistic way of life. Following an intrtoduction written by the photographer is an encyclopedia of colour images.