Boris Mikhailov
Untitled

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Artist Boris Mikhailov(Ukrainian, born 1938)Ukrainian, born 1938

CultureRussian

Titles

Untitled
from the series Salt Lakes

Date1985

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 5 1/16 × 7 1/2 in. (12.9 × 19.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 × 9 3/8 in. (17.8 × 23.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Richard S. and Dodie Otey Jackson in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement

Object number2014.1046

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIn Russia and the Ukraine, the 1970s and 1980s saw a shift from an era of stagnation to one of increasing transparency of glasnost. With those social changes came a freedom for photographers such as Boris Mikhailov to depict real life, rather than images of a Potemkin village approved by the state.
ProvenanceThe artist; Lucian Perkins; [Naila Alexander, New York]; purchased by Richard S. Jackson and Dodie Otey Jackson, Houston; given to MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil, verso, top right corner: BM-001
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper left center: © Б. Михайлов / Солевые озера. 1985 // B. Mikhailov / Salt Lakes. 1985
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom edge: Sault [sic] Lake Untitled 1985
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom right: $300

Inscribed in pencil, verso, center: © Б. Михайлов [B. Mikhailov]

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