"...in search of window of Opportunity / Exodus..." Rare Books and yet they remained entranced

and yet they remained entranced

to locales where the latter couple made photographs together more than eighty years ago

but which aspires to stimulate and suggest a reading of the work stripped of circumstantial preconceptions

his curiosity and his camera Mauro D’Agati arrived in a Roma camp

"...in search of window of Opportunity / Exodus..." Rare Books and yet they remained entrancedA cheeky boy and a wise old man, two figures in one, Mikhailov passes a merciless sentence on contemporaneity without uttering a single word. Powerful and sometimes graphic, these images confront the viewer with unexpected juxtapositions: despair and hope, beauty and suffering, disgust and Homeric laughter. Each page strikes like a blow to the face. Whereas blackness around each image fills the pages, framing them like petroleum or fertile black soil.