Yesterday's Sandwich II

First edition of Yesterday's Sandwich II by Boris Mikhailov. First impression. Medium format hardback in new condition.

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Boris Mikhailov’s sandwiched images, using his own photographs from the 1960s and 1970s as raw material, provide a particularly poignant portrait of Soviet life, and in particular, the separation between public and private lives that took place under that regime. With freedoms of all kinds curtailed significantly by the government, everyday existence took on a suffocating grey tone, and the only forms of personal expression that survived were ones that took place in secret. Mikhailov’s photographs from this early period in his artistic career are filled with this public/private friction, where bleak images of snowy days and grim, depressed circumstances are balanced by small moments of individual rebellion and expression, usually taking the form of easy going nudity, bawdy joking, or hidden joys.