Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015. First edition. [440]pp; color plates. 4to. Photo-illustrated boards, black quarter-cloth; no jacket, as issued. Near fine, with mild toning to edges of leaves. With 32pp. pamphlet laid-in, containing an essay by Francesco Zanot in English, Italian, and German.
Soviet-era snapshots by Ukrainian photographer and artist Boris Mikhailov (b. 1938), here arranged in the manner of a scrapbook, with reproduced collage and hand-colored elements. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Boris Mikhailov: Ukraine" organized by Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, 2015/16. Supplementary pamphlet contains an insightful essay on the genesis of the work, "The Scorpion and the Coca-Cola: An Autopsy of the Homo Sovieticus" by Francesco Zanot.
