DOM - Document Object Model (signed)
by Julia Borissova
Photographs: Julia Borissova
Publisher: Self published
48+20 pages
Year: 2014
Price: 88 €
Comments: Gatefold softcover, 15 x 20 cm, second edition 2016 (75 copies)
Rather less commercial in appearance is DOM (Document Object Model), a beautiful handmade book by Julia Borissova. Borissova won acclaim for her 2012 found-imagery work, Running to the Edge. Her new project, DOM – which means ‘house’ in Russian – is quite different in nature. ‘For this project, I wanted to “grow” an image,’ she explains. ‘My idea was to create a utopian version of sprouting houses which I removed from their usual context and placed in other settings. After that I grew the plants in the models and watched as they were germinating. I took photographs to capture the variations in their appearance, thinking about how our concept of home changes over time. The particular type of the houses shown in the series are called Khruschyovka, which were built in the era of Khrushchev. He was the first to introduce mass housing to Russia. Economy-class houses of this kind were built in a number of other European countries, as well as Japan. The construction of these houses continued from 1959 to 1985. As of today, they account for 10 per cent of the total housing stock of the former Soviet Union. Now they are going to be demolished. Nobody admires them – on the contrary, they arouse only censure. The main complaint against them is about their size and the fact that they are very cold in the winter. But a lot of Russian people still live in these houses. I decided that they deserved to be the heroes of my project.’“
Best Photobooks Lists:
Book DOM has been selected as one of ten favorite publications of the year by Sarah Bodman, senior research fellow at UWE Bristol's Centre for Fine Print Research and writer of a-n's Artists' Books
Awards & Fellowship:
Kassel Dummy Award 2018 - shortlist
The Second Triennial INFOCUS Exhibition of Photo Books Exhibition, December 2, 2016 - April 9, 2017
The book's space on International Festival of Rome 2015
The Athens Photo Festival 2015
Little big press > The book’s space, 3/3
Reviews, links & publications:
Positiiv magazine (Estonia), Colta.ru
The interview at 3/3 for the exhibition “The book’s space”
Collections: The library of Art Institute of Chicago, Art Museum of Estonia library,
Indie Photobook Library, The Library Project (Ireland)
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DOM - Document Object Model (signed)
by Julia Borissova
Photographs: Julia Borissova
Publisher: Self published
48+20 pages
Year: 2014
Price: 88 €
Comments: Gatefold softcover, 15 x 20 cm, second edition 2016 (75 copies)
Rather less commercial in appearance is DOM (Document Object Model), a beautiful handmade book by Julia Borissova. Borissova won acclaim for her 2012 found-imagery work, Running to the Edge. Her new project, DOM – which means ‘house’ in Russian – is quite different in nature. ‘For this project, I wanted to “grow” an image,’ she explains. ‘My idea was to create a utopian version of sprouting houses which I removed from their usual context and placed in other settings. After that I grew the plants in the models and watched as they were germinating. I took photographs to capture the variations in their appearance, thinking about how our concept of home changes over time. The particular type of the houses shown in the series are called Khruschyovka, which were built in the era of Khrushchev. He was the first to introduce mass housing to Russia. Economy-class houses of this kind were built in a number of other European countries, as well as Japan. The construction of these houses continued from 1959 to 1985. As of today, they account for 10 per cent of the total housing stock of the former Soviet Union. Now they are going to be demolished. Nobody admires them – on the contrary, they arouse only censure. The main complaint against them is about their size and the fact that they are very cold in the winter. But a lot of Russian people still live in these houses. I decided that they deserved to be the heroes of my project.’“
Best Photobooks Lists:
Book DOM has been selected as one of ten favorite publications of the year by Sarah Bodman, senior research fellow at UWE Bristol's Centre for Fine Print Research and writer of a-n's Artists' Books
Awards & Fellowship:
Kassel Dummy Award 2018 - shortlist
The Second Triennial INFOCUS Exhibition of Photo Books Exhibition, December 2, 2016 - April 9, 2017
The book's space on International Festival of Rome 2015
The Athens Photo Festival 2015
Little big press > The book’s space, 3/3
Reviews, links & publications:
Positiiv magazine (Estonia), Colta.ru
The interview at 3/3 for the exhibition “The book’s space”
Collections: The library of Art Institute of Chicago, Art Museum of Estonia library,
Indie Photobook Library, The Library Project (Ireland)
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Euro 46.20
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Euro 9.50 -
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sold out -
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Euro 44 -
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A collector's choice by josefchladek.com
DOM - Document Object Model (signed)
by Julia Borissova
Photographs: Julia Borissova
Publisher: Self published
48+20 pages
Year: 2014
Price: 88 €
Comments: Gatefold softcover, 15 x 20 cm, second edition 2016 (75 copies)
Rather less commercial in appearance is DOM (Document Object Model), a beautiful handmade book by Julia Borissova. Borissova won acclaim for her 2012 found-imagery work, Running to the Edge. Her new project, DOM – which means ‘house’ in Russian – is quite different in nature. ‘For this project, I wanted to “grow” an image,’ she explains. ‘My idea was to create a utopian version of sprouting houses which I removed from their usual context and placed in other settings. After that I grew the plants in the models and watched as they were germinating. I took photographs to capture the variations in their appearance, thinking about how our concept of home changes over time. The particular type of the houses shown in the series are called Khruschyovka, which were built in the era of Khrushchev. He was the first to introduce mass housing to Russia. Economy-class houses of this kind were built in a number of other European countries, as well as Japan. The construction of these houses continued from 1959 to 1985. As of today, they account for 10 per cent of the total housing stock of the former Soviet Union. Now they are going to be demolished. Nobody admires them – on the contrary, they arouse only censure. The main complaint against them is about their size and the fact that they are very cold in the winter. But a lot of Russian people still live in these houses. I decided that they deserved to be the heroes of my project.’“
Best Photobooks Lists:
Book DOM has been selected as one of ten favorite publications of the year by Sarah Bodman, senior research fellow at UWE Bristol's Centre for Fine Print Research and writer of a-n's Artists' Books
Awards & Fellowship:
Kassel Dummy Award 2018 - shortlist
The Second Triennial INFOCUS Exhibition of Photo Books Exhibition, December 2, 2016 - April 9, 2017
The book's space on International Festival of Rome 2015
The Athens Photo Festival 2015
Little big press > The book’s space, 3/3
Reviews, links & publications:
Positiiv magazine (Estonia), Colta.ru
The interview at 3/3 for the exhibition “The book’s space”
Collections: The library of Art Institute of Chicago, Art Museum of Estonia library,
Indie Photobook Library, The Library Project (Ireland)
More books by Julia Borissova
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White Blonde (book + print)
by Julia Borissova
Euro 49 -
Let me fall again (signed)
by Julia Borissova
Euro 165 -
J.B. about men floating in the air (signed)
by Julia Borissova
Euro 55 -
Lullaby for a Bride (signed)
by Julia Borissova
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Libretto (signed - last copy)
by Julia Borissova
sold out -
Red Giselle (signed)
by Julia Borissova
Euro 62 -
Nautilus (signed)
by Julia Borissova
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-
Landschaft für Engel
by Christine de Grancy
Euro 80 64.00 -
The Corners
by Chris Dorley-Brown
sold out -
Bufet (signed)
by Tamara Horáková & Ewald Maurer
Euro 24.90 -
The still hour / La hora inmóvil
by Bernard Plossu
Euro 46.20
more books tagged »Russian« | >> see all
-
Sea I become by degrees (signed)
by Natalia Baluta
Euro 55 -
LITTLE FUNNY STORY, issues #1,2,3,4,5 (signed)
by Vlada Krasilnikova
Euro 165 -
Entrance to Our Valley (signed - last copy)
by Jenia Fridlyand
Euro 450 -
Moscow 1974
by Brian Griffin
Euro 9.50 -
Little Adults
by Anna Skladmann
sold out -
BORDER – A journey along the edges of Russia
by Maria Gruzdeva
Euro 43
more books tagged » documentary« | >> see all
-
From YOKOSUKA
by Ishiuchi Miyako
Euro 44 -
she dances on Jackson (signed)
by Vanessa Winship
Euro 50 -
Der Parasit / The Parasite (signed)
by Sophie Tiller
Euro 59 -
Austrian Documentary Photography (review copy)
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 75 52.50 -
The Grunwick Dispute 1977 "We are Lions"
by Homer Sykes
Euro 9.50 -
Works
by Michael Wolf
sold out
more books tagged »handmade« | >> see all
-
Tell the children (signed)
by Andrea Geremia
Euro 77 -
Makers of East London
by Charlotte Schreiber & Katie Treggiden
Euro 39 35.10 -
Absentia
by Laura Barrón
Euro 220 176.00 -
I, Oblomov (signed)
by Ikuru Kuwajima
Euro 45 -
Shipwrecked (signed)
by Ekaterina Vasilyeva
Euro 62 -
Smail
by Alessandro Bo Rohde
sold out
A collector's choice by josefchladek.com