Die Dämmerung. At Dusk... Am Boden. By the Ground.

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Mihailov took these photographs in Kyiv and his hometown of Kharkiv, where the Horizont panoramic camera he uses is manufactured. The resulting street scenes reveal a society that has broken down, where people are struggling to deal with the fallout from the collapse of the Soviet Union. In his introduction, Mihailov writes, 'The fourth year... Not much has been reorganized, but a lot has changed... a deterioration in the quality of life for most people and the waning hope that some time everything will turn out fine for them. This is not only based on my sources of information, but more than anything else on my photos.' First edition; 2 vols., oblong 8vo (166 x 268 mm, 6½ x 10½ in); [Am Boden:] brown-toned black-and-white photographs; plain endpapers, photo-illustrated paper-covered boards printed in peach, text in black, minor wear, lightly bumped; 144pp; [Die Dämmerung:] blue-toned black-and-white photographs; plain endpapers, photo-illustrated paper-covered boards printed in blue, titles in black, minor wear, light fading to spine, both vols. in the publisher's cardboard slipcase, light wear, a very good copy; 128pp. The Photobook: A History II, p77.

• Binding: Hardcover

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