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THIS IS A SELECTION OF "101 BOOKS OF SIGNED BOOKS" AND AN EXCLUSIVE OFFER FROM MY PRIVATE COLLECTION.

Scalo, Zurich. 1999. First edition, first printing.

Signed by Boris Mikhailov.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE.

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook  A History, vol 2, page 309.

Important european photobook brandnew condition.

Hardback with jacket. 170 x 235 mm. 480 pages. 431 colour photographs.
Introduction by Boris Mikhailov; conversation between Ilya Kabakov and Victor Tupitsyn. Edited Alexis Schwarzenbach. Design by Hans Werner Holzwarth. Text in english.

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Mikhailov is well-known for many famous photobooks. Beside "Case History" also for "Unfinished Dissertation" or "By the ground. At dusk." (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. "The break-up of the former Soviet union has brutally torn apart the social fabric across all of its former territories. Building a civil society and a functioning market economy will take a long time. Meanwhile, there are many who have lost everything-their jobs, their homes, their social network, their identity-roaming the streets, scrambling for food and alcohol, looking for a place to sleep. Boris Mikhailov has followed their lives for a number of years. Case History is a collective portrait of those whose lives have fallen apart amidst the turmoil of epochal change, people whom history has left behind. Street kids getting high, adults looking for food, dirt-covered men and women washing themselves in Mikhailov's apartment, homeless people caressing each other's decrepit bodies: unflinchingly brutal and yet dignified images of aspects of the human condition that we prefer to repress." "It seems to me that my personal uncertainty (it is not clear where I live-in Kharkov or somewhere in the West, where I work, etc.), my instability in society, on the formal level, has transformed the border between documentary and scenery within the framework of the documentary." "Case History is not just a chronicle of the crass reality of a historical transition. It is a ravishing work of art offering a bold, radically candid perspective on the human body, its weakness, and mortality. Mikhailov shows us how history has inscribed itself on the bodies of these Ukrainian homeless. He investigates the gruesome physical marks of social change. Gentle and brutal, wry and sad, a book that presents life in all of its contradictions and extremes."
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