Boris Mikhailov - Am Boden/ By the Ground + Die Dämmerung/ At Dusk holland

Boris Mikhailov - Am Boden/ By the Ground + Die Dämmerung/ At Dusk hollandOktagon 1996 "Shot on the streets of Kiev and Kharkiv (Mikhailov's home town) with a Horizont panoramic camera (manufactured in Kharkiv), both books are a searing indictment of a society that has broken down and whose vacuum has been filled by the 'free' market. The sense of chaos, despair and misery is unrelenting, with image after image detailing environmental decay, shabby street people, food queues and comatose drunks lying on the streets. This is

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literature

and the series takes its title from the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo

drifting back and forth through time

The Lisbon pictures are black and white street photographs in the best sense

lingered on – over one hundred years later – in a current threat of violence

Suzuki’s early photographs came to light by pure coincidence: his son’s wife discovered the negatives and developed them as contact sheets

Majoli’s photographs result from his own performance

and this became the basis for his final piece in this series

both of whom are incorporated into the network of literary and cultural references interwoven throughout the book’s text

Within the space of their correspondence

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