Boris Mikhailov: Case History | 
 enlarge | Author: Boris Mikhailov
Publisher: Scalo Publishers
Category: Book
Buy New: $101.20
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 605127
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 478
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 3908247098
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783908247098
ASIN: 3908247098
Publication Date: May 1999
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Condition: First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards, with dust jacket. Photographs and text by Boris Mikhailov. Includes a conversation between Ilya Kabakov and Victor Tupitsyn. 480 pp., with 439 four-color plates. 9 1/2 x 7 inches. CONDITION: New in publisher's shrink-wrap. From the publisher: "The break-up of the former Soviet union has brutally torn apart the social fabric across all of its former territories. Building a civil society and a functioning market economy will take a long time. Meanwhile, there are many who have lost everything-their jobs, their homes, their social network, their identity-roaming the streets, scrambling for food and alcohol, looking for a place to sleep. Boris Mikhailov has followed their lives for a number of years. Case History is a collective portrait of those whose lives have fallen apart amidst the turmoil of epochal change, people whom history has left behind. Street kids getting high, adults looking for food, dirt-covered men and women
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 How wealthy we are in the Western World. July 17, 2000
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
First thing is first. Book is in colour. Did I not read that? Do not know, was expecting B&W. Second, 400 pages of which I believe 50+ were provactive and made me think. Provactivity was why I bought the book, and why I suspect others did/will too. Wanted to be woken up from my slumber: to know what it is really like over there. But 50/400 pages is not a high ratio, hence my 3 stars. (To be honest, some of the photos I felt I could've taken myself.) Notwithstanding this, there were some shots that demanded a reality check. How wealthy we are in the Western World...
 Not for everyone, and certainly not for me. May 28, 2000
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
For me, the only thing this book proves is that in the post-Soviet Ukraine, the homeless can be subjected to exploitation and forced loss of dignity for a small sum of money. The degrading conditions of the people could be shown without having the photographer subject the people to further degradation. By the way, this was the most poorly bound book that I have ever received. Upon the first (and last) reading, groups of 10-20 pages were coming out in handfuls. Not a problem - I threw it away.
 Not for everyone! May 23, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The photos in this book are provocative and thoughtful - but definitely not for everyone. Case History is 400+ pages of Ukraine's poor and homeless - most in various stages of undress. Mikhailov comes through and does an excellent job of depicting certain aspects of the downfall of the Soviet Union - his photos are thoughtful and emotional - but often disturbing. View his other works before spending the money. Not for the weak of stomach!
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