Boris Mikhailov (Phaidon 55S)

Boris Mikhailov (b.1938) is the former Soviet Union's most influential living photographer. His varied photographic strategies reveal not only a rich imagination but also practical solutions for survival. His work questions how an artist can position himself in a defeated, dying world.

Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin