I Am Not I brings together 33 tritones images from Boris Mikhailov‘s iconic series and includes a text by Senior Tate Curator of Photography Simon Baker.
« I thought, if you criticize someone, start with yourself…. All of a sudden, you see a face that is different from a face that you see every day. This is not you. This is a face. Moreover, when I first took photos of myself, I saw a face that was different than the one known from the ideology of the Russian man. This man was an intelligentik (an intellectual, not a worker, who is not to be trusted in the Soviet Union)… I am photographing the other, but who am I? »
BOOK
I Am Not I brings
Boris Mikhailov
Limited Edition of 1000
64 pages
24 x 33cm
Text Simon Baker
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