Publisher/Oktagon

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This is a collection of works by Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov (1938–). Based in Kharkiv under the Soviet Union, Mikhailov began his photography career self-taught. Despite losing his job due to his critical works, he continued to create, keenly observing the cracks that arise between ideology and everyday life. He is an important figure in contemporary photography, having built a unique style that led to later works such as "Case History." This book is a catalog of his works published in the mid-1990s, comprehensively covering series from the late Soviet era to its collapse, revealing a landscape where individual lives and social structures are intricately intertwined. Moving between color and monochrome, his images, which blur the boundaries between staging and documentation, possess both humor and critical merit, quietly reflecting the distortions of the era and the nature of the body. This book captures the feelings at a turning point in history in a multi-layered way.