What is special about Boris Mikhailov as a maker of books is that he thinks of and develops photography in sequences, in spaces and cuts, in the forms of its montage. Taken as a whole, the books and the book drafts, which often exist only as a single original copy, create a retrospective of a very particular and intimate kind. Two artist books are reproduced here in facsimile, interrupted by illustrated text. Mikhailov is seen as a chronicler of the history of his Ukrainian homeland and of the everyday life of the so-called little people.