Boris
Mikhaïlov
Boris
Mikhaïlov
Mikhaïlov
Ukrainian, born in 1938
Boris Mikhaïlov is one of the foremost photographers in eastern Europe. He has had a significant influence on conceptual art and documentary photography.
Born in 1938 in Kharkov, a large industrial city in Ukraine, Mikhaïlov started taking photographs in 1965, abandoning his career as an engineer. The artist seeks to represent his childhood memories of a society in transition, offering a faithful view of the last thirty years of the soviet era until the collapse of the USSR, marked by the communist regime and then by social and economic hardship. Mikhaïlov’s works can be classed as “social”, his different series representing the inhabitants of a post-Soviet world left to ruin.
The artist’s work in the Pinault Collection was presented at the Palazzo Grassi at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition in (2011-2012).
Born in 1938 in Kharkov, a large industrial city in Ukraine, Mikhaïlov started taking photographs in 1965, abandoning his career as an engineer. The artist seeks to represent his childhood memories of a society in transition, offering a faithful view of the last thirty years of the soviet era until the collapse of the USSR, marked by the communist regime and then by social and economic hardship. Mikhaïlov’s works can be classed as “social”, his different series representing the inhabitants of a post-Soviet world left to ruin.
The artist’s work in the Pinault Collection was presented at the Palazzo Grassi at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition in (2011-2012).
