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For the acclaimed photographer Boris Mikhailov (born 1938), a
society's most significant paradigm shifts are often most clearly
perceived in the smallest of everyday transactions. For example, in
a cafe or restaurant in the Soviet-era Ukraine, a waiter would have
offered you "tea or coffee?" Today, two decades after the fall of
the Soviet bloc and the ascent of western capitalism, it's "tea,
coffee, cappuccino?" In his latest body of work, Mikhailov
addresses this shift by focusing on his hometown of Charkow, in the
north east of the Ukraine. Here, the consumerist invasion of
western capitalism is everywhere apparent in huge, colorful
advertising banners and billboards, but the promises of the
so-called Orange Revolution seem to have been fulfilled for only a
few. Mikhailov writes that "only when one sees misery in a picture,
does one begin to notice it in the street," and throughout the
200-plus photographs in this volume, he takes pains to neither
dramatize nor ameliorate the conditions of life in Charkow; and so
his tough-minded pictures present a bleak but rigorously honest
portrait of the Ukraine and its inhabitants.
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