Scalo, Zurich. 2000. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Boris Mikhailov.
New, mint, unread; only opened once for signature.
Excellent photobook.
Hardback with jacket. 28,5 x 25 cm. 88 pages. Black and white photos. Text in english.
Great book in perfect condition.
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).
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.
- Object
- Book
- Number of Books
- 1
- Subject
- Photography
- Author/ Illustrator
- Signed; Boris Mikhailov
- Book Title
- Hasselblad Award
- Condition
- As new
- Publication year oldest item
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Language
- English
- Original language
- Yes
- Publisher
- Scalo, Zurich
- Binding/ Material
- Hardback
- Extras
- Dust jacket, Signed
- Number of pages
- 88
- Dimensions
- 250×285 mm