Boris Mikhailov: Look at Me I Look at Water or Perversion of Repose

Mikhailov, Boris

ISBN 10: 3882439688 / ISBN 13: 9783882439687

Published by Steidl Publishers, 2004

About this Item

Hardback, pictorial boards. 26.5cm x 33cm. Unpaginated. Several colour illustrations. 1st edition 2004. Top corners a little bumped. A very pleasing copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (on top of 13000).

Seller Inventory # 13WHTGRY1912

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boris Mikhailov: Look at Me I Look at Water or Perversion of Repose
• Publisher: Steidl Publishers
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3882439688
• ISBN 13: 9783882439687
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Mikhailov, Boris
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Art

About this title

Synopsis

Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts and the homeless. Look at Me, I Look at Water was composed in 1999 at the suggestion of the Heiner Mller-Society when Boris Mikhailov's name was found in one of Heiner Mller's notebooks. With this book Mikhailov is continuing, thematically and conceptionally, what he began with his artist's book Unfinished Dissertation in 1985. The photographs are accompanied by handwritten Russian commentaries, which together give the impression of a private album which narrates stories from a chapter in the artist's life.