Description
Crimean Snobbism is one of Boris Mikhailov’s more restrained and quietly subversive bodies of work. Known for his raw documentation of post-Soviet collapse (Case History, At Dusk), Mikhailov here turns his lens toward leisure, pose, and class performance in Crimea. The book’s elegant production — textured wraps, minimal typography, letterpressed jacket, generous white space — contrasts beautifully with the layered irony in the images.
The photographs riff on 19th-century pictorial conventions and bourgeois portraiture, staging romance and aspiration against a backdrop heavy with historical residue. Marx’s portrait appears in the background of one image — not accidental. Mikhailov plays with nostalgia, class memory, and theatrical self-presentation. This is less social document, more cultural provocation.
A handsome, well-designed Mikhailov title that doesn’t surface every day.
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