Boris Mikhailov : Bücher = Books

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Tent. Hannover. Sprengel Museum, 24-02-2013, 20-05-2013. - Fotoboek van de Oekraïnse kunstenaar Boris Mihailov (Charkov 1938) naar aanleiding van de verlening van de internationale 'Spectrum' prijs voor fotografie toont een overzicht van zijn fotografisch werk in de periode 1968-2012 waarin hij de het grensgebied tussen het publieke en private alledaagse leven onderzoekt. - Ukrainian documentary photographer Boris Mikhailov is internationally admired for his intense, clear-eyed depictions of his homeland, the Ukraine -most famously, his portrayals of the everyday struggles of the "bomzhes," the homeless, a class that dramatically enlarged after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using this raw and emotive material, Mikhailov touches on themes ranging from the living conditions in post-communist Eastern Europe and the fallen ideals of the Soviet Union to the harsher trials of human existence. Although deeply rooted in a specific historical context, his work also narrates more accessible, personal threads of humor, lust, vulnerability, aging and death. This publication presents, in facsimile, Mikhailov's well-known artist's books "Krymskaja Fotomanija" ("Crimean Photomania") and "Mountains,"