Signed X2 Boris Mihailov - By the Ground &At Dusk / Die Dämmerung & Am Boden) - 1996

Welcome to this special sale of books or authors listed in the book Photobook by Parr & Badger. All of these books are signed. These two books are listed in Photobook by Parr & Badger (volume II, page 77).

Rare, exceptional copies signed on the title page by Boris Mihailov (born in 1938) and housed in a case.

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1 On the Ground (By the Ground - A terre). Oktagon Verlag, 1996, Cologne. 27 x 19 cm, 142 pages and 126 photographs printed in brown sepia. Illustrated hardcover binding.

2. Dusk (At Dusk – Entre chien et loup). Oktagon Verlag, 1996, Cologne. 27 x 19 cm, 128 pages and 111 photographs printed in blue bistre. Illustrated hardcover binding.

Two striking volumes on the end of the Soviet Empire, both signed by Boris Mikhailov in gold ink on the title page. Boris Mikhailov was born in Karkov, Ukraine, during the Soviet Union era. The title of the first volume references a play by Maxim Gorky, 'The Lower Depths,' about the lives of the wrecked, the poor, and the marginalized in Tsarist Russia, and the second volume's title could be translated as 'Between Dogs and Wolves' or 'Dusk,' the time of day between day and night. The photographs were taken on the streets of Kiev and Kharkov using a Horizont panoramic camera made in Kharkov itself. In the first volume, the photographs are treated in sepia brown, the color of earth, dust, and dirt, while those in the second volume are treated in blue sepia, a color that, for Mikhailov, represents war, hunger, and misery. 'At dusk, a nightmare veil envelops streets that seem haunted by the damned.'

1.4 kg excluding packaging