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Colleagues,
I draw your attention to;

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/case-history-behold-the-anonymous-homeless-downtrodden-insulted-and-injured/

Excerpt:
<<Case History: Behold the Anonymous Homeless, Downtrodden, Insulted and Injured
Ukrainian-born Boris Mikhailov is one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. For over 30 years, he has explored the place of the individual within the historical mechanisms of public ideology, touching on such subjects as the Ukraine under Soviet rule, the living conditions in post-communist Eastern Europe and the fallen ideals of the Soviet Union. Although deeply rooted in a historical context, Mikhailov’s work also presents profoundly engaging and personal narratives of humor, lust, vulnerability, aging and death.


Case History is a study of the homeless, a collection of photographs by Mikhailov of homeless people in the Ukraine. His raw images of the homeless are sometimes intensely painful and not for the squeamish; they are hard to look at, but also hard to look away from and hard to forget. The photographs from Case History are currently on exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, the first in-depth presentation of Mikhailov’s seminal series (1997-98) at an American museum. The photographs portray people who are far from conventionally attractive in grungy rooms or in wintry outdoor sites, naked or pulling aside their clothes to expose parts of their bodies ordinarily hidden from view. [...]>>

Review by Ken Johnson in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/arts/design/boris-mikhailov-case-history-at-moma-review.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28

Regards,

Natalia Pylypiuk, PhD, Professor
Ukrainian Culture, Language & Literature Program
[www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ukraina/]
Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta







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