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Boris Mikhailov : Bücher : Strukturen des Wahnsinns, oder, Warum Hirten in den Bergen oft verrückt werden : Fotomanie auf der Krim = Books : Structures of madness, or, Why shepherds living in the mountains often go crazy : photomania in Crimea / herausgegeben von = edited by Inka Schube ; essays von Inka Schube, Oksana Bulgakowa, Boris Groys [and 3 others].

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Bücher : Strukturen des Wahnsinns, oder, Warum Hirten in den Bergen oft verrückt werden : Fotomanie auf der Krim, Books : structures of madness, or, Why shepherds living in the mountains often go crazy : photomania in Crimea, Books, and Edited by Inka Schube
Published
Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
334 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm
Additional Creators
Michailov, Boris, 1938-, Schube, Inka, Schube, Inka, Bulgakowa, Oksana, Groĭs, Boris, and Sprengel Museum Hannover

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Summary
Ukrainian documentary photographer Boris Mikhailov (born 1938) 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, each of which is 128 pages and which are here supplemented by 80 pages of informative, illustrated text.
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ISBN
9783863353032
386335303X
Note
In German and English.
In conjunction with the exhibition "SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Stiftung Niedersachsen: Boris Mikhailov - The Books 1968-2012" held at Sprengel Museum, Hannover, February 24 - May 20, 2013.
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