Serie Von Vier (Series of Four) by Boris Mikhailov

A collection of works by Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov.

Published for the first time as an artist book, these black-and-white photographs were taken in the early 1990s in Kharkov, Mikhailov's hometown, the Soviet Union, which at the time belonged to Ukraine. In this work, Mikhailov uses the possibilities of four black-and-white sequential photographs to capture a phenomenon from different perspectives. The photographs also exemplify Mikhailov's work as an attentive observer of the Soviet world and as an experimental artist in Moscow's conceptualist milieu, transcending ideology in an obstructive era. The photobook, which he conceived as an "open archive", also functions as an atlas dotted with references to Mikhailov's later work. The book was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Boris Mikhailov: The Space Between Us" at the Baden State Art Museum in 2019.

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Title: Serie Von Vier (Series of Four)
Artist: Boris Mikhailov
Walther König, 2020
Softcover with PVC dust jacket
300 x 220 mm
180 pages
First edition