Boris mikhailov photographer biography examples
Amateur photographer biography!
Boris Mikhailov (b.
Boris mikhailov photographer biography examples
1938, lives in Kharkiv and Berlin) is the artist who put the city of Kharkiv on the world photography map. A Hasselblad Prize laureate whose work has been exhibited in big-name world museums, he was the engine of the Vremya group and a key figure in the emergence of the Kharkiv School of Photography.
On a continuous search for new ideas, always discontented with the result and demanding more from his own work, Mikhailov articulated the most important words in the new visual language of the Kharkiv School (watch Boris Mikhailov on KSP).
Overlays (1968—1981), or 'superimpositions’, or 'sandwiches', as he sometimes called them, were probably Boris Mikhailov’s first invention on the way to new and more complex means of visual language.
The artist says that when he intended to take a look at newly developed slide films, he incidentally put two of them together and was stunned by the effect. The images looked formally new, surrealistic, and grote