Viscidity by Boris Mikhailov
The photographs featured in Viscidity by Boris Mikhailov were completed and sequenced in Kharkov in 1982 but only recently published as a book.
As Mikhailov states: “At first the texts tautologically repeated what was visible in the image, as though they were simply drawing attention to the photograph (the first book)… gradually the texts changed and became poetic and deeper (the second book)… then I added quotations in addition to my own reflections on photography (the third book).”
Each photograph is reproduced at their original scale and we have added translations on the facing pages from the Russian to English using Ostia Antica. The jacket designs takes one of Mikhailov’s accompanying texts, set in Agipo Bold Condensed, with the Russian on the front cover and front flap and the English on the back. The jacket, spine, and title pages and essay are set in Agipo as well.
