Lot 892
  • 892

Boris Smelov

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Boris Smelov
  • Eight works from St Petersburg series
  • silver print
Silver prints. Each signed, titled, numbered and dated on the reverse. Executed between 1971 and 1988, six works are from an edition of 10, two works are from an edition of 15.

Exhibited

Say Cheese! An Insight into Contemporary Soviet Photography, 1968-1988, Comptoir de la Photographie, Paris France; Portfolio Gallery, UK; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 1988, ill. p. 113

Shift: From Leningrad to St. Petersburg, Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, St. Petersburg, 1997

Literature

Maria Sheinina (ed.), St Petersburg in Black and White : In Celebration of the Tercentenary of St Petersburg, Bad Breisig: Palace Editions, 2003

Arkady Ippolitov and Dmitry Ozerkov (eds.), Boris Smelov: Retrospective, Bielefeld, 2009, ill. pp. 59, 102, 134, 208, 245, 248, 284