Boris Mikhailov

A focused collection of Boris Mikhailov photobooks stocked by Lokator100, an independent bookstore based in Germany. Titles span his work across the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, with each listing accompanied by accurate bibliographic detail and condition notes.

Boris Mikhailov: Photography Across the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

Boris Mikhailov was born in 1938 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. His photographic practice spans the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, working across documentary and conceptual modes with sustained attention to the social body, historical rupture, and the conditions of everyday life.

Mikhailov's method draws on seriality, vernacular imagery, and direct social observation. His work addresses marginalization and collective experience without sentimentality. Early series such as Yesterday's Sandwich used superimposed images as a formal response to the contradictions of Soviet life. Later bodies of work engage poverty and the body with unflinching directness. Boris Mikhailov photobooks remain among the most studied objects in post-Soviet photography.

This collection gathers the Boris Mikhailov books and editions currently stocked at Lokator100, an independent bookstore dispatching carefully from Germany. Each listing includes accurate bibliographic detail and condition notes. Keep Distance is currently available. For broader context, see our Photography & Photobooks collection.

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