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OverviewFor the acclaimed photographer Boris Mikhailov (born 1938), a society's most significant paradigm shifts are often most clearly perceived in the smallest of everyday transactions. For example, in a café or restaurant in the Soviet-era Ukraine, a waiter would have offered you ‘tea or coffee?’. Today, two decades after the fall of the Soviet bloc and the ascent of western capitalism, it's ‘tea, coffee, cappuccino?’. In his latest body of work, Mikhailov addresses this shift by focusing on his hometown of Charkow, in the north east of the Ukraine. Here, the consumerist invasion of western capitalism is everywhere apparent in huge, colourful advertising banners and billboards, but the promises of the so-called Orange Revolution seem to have been fulfilled for only a few. Mikhailov writes that ‘only when one sees misery in a picture, does one begin to notice it in the street’, and throughout the 200-plus photographs in this volume, he takes pains to neither dramatize nor ameliorate the conditions of life in Charkow; and so his tough-minded pictures present a bleak but rigorously honest portrait of the Ukraine and its inhabitants. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Boris Mikhailov , Boris MikhailovPublisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Dimensions: Width: 28.70cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 20.40cm Weight: 1.270kg ISBN: 9783865608772ISBN 10: 3865608779 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 11 April 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |