Boris Michailov - Les Miserables (MINT CONDITION) - 1998

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Fantastic, small, widely unknown catalogue by Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov.

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).

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Sprengel Museum, Hannover. 1998. First edition, first printing.

Paperback with jacket. 195 x 240 mm. 36 pages. 15 photos. Photos: Boris Mikhailov. Layout: Jörg Werner. Language: English, German.

Great Boris Mikhailov publication - in perfect 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.