Boris Mikhailov - Hasselblad Award - 2000

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Wonderful photobook by Boris Mikhailov -
published on the occasion of the 'Hasselblad Award' for him in 2000.

Mikhailov is well-known for many famous photobooks like "By the ground. At dusk.", "Case History" or "Unfinished Dissertation" (all mentioned in Martin Parr, The Photobook).

Scalo, Zurich. 2000. First edition, first printing.

Hardback with jacket. 285 x 250 cm. 88 pages. Black and white photos. Photos: Boris Mikhailov. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside like new and unread; fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket very fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; very light trace of use. Overall very fine condition.

Great photobook by Boris Mikhailov - in great condition.

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.