At Dusk / By the Ground
Boris Mikhailov
CONDITION & NOTES | |
Used – Good / Two volumes. Exterior has signs of wear including some dirt spots, some scratches and minor wear along the edges. Spines are slightly discoloured. Interior Very Good with previous owners name on the end paper of both volumes. Missing the original cardboard slipcase. |
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TYPE | PUBLICATION YEAR |
Hardcover |
1996 |
EDITION | LANGUAGE |
First |
English, German, Ukrainian |
PUBLISHER | DIMENSIONS |
Oktagon | 28 x 18 x 3 cm |
Used – Good / Two volumes. Exterior has signs of wear including some dirt spots, some scratches and minor wear along the edges. Spines are slightly discoloured. Interior Very Good with previous owners name on the end paper of both volumes. Missing the original cardboard slipcase.
TYPE
Hardcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
1996
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English, German, Ukrainian
PUBLISHER
Oktagon
DIMENSIONS
28 x 18 x 3 cm
ABOUT
Boris Mikhailov's pioneering practice is situated at the frontier of documentary photography, conceptual work, painting and performance art. Since the 1960s he has been reflecting on the upheavals that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequences of its dissolution in Ukraine.
BY THE GROUND
In 1991, Ukraine became independent. Kharkiv, the inaugural capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic founded in December 1917, wanted to open up and modernise. With his Horizon camera, a Russian-made rotating panorama camera with a lens capable of scanning a 120-degree field, Mikhailov walks through the streets. He points the lens downwards, towards the men and women who live on the pavement, the homeless. The result: nostalgic silver prints, whose angle forces the viewer to bend down, to put himself on the level of the destitute. The photographer decided to call the series "By the Ground" (1991), in reference to the play Les Bas-fonds (1902) by the playwright Maxim Gorki, which denounced the extreme poverty of the Russian working class.
AT DUSK
At Dusk is a series made in Kharkiv, Boris Mikhailov's hometown in Ukraine, a territory in the process of gaining independence after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. This series, tinted with a cobalt blue wash, is a personal account of events rather than a historical document.