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Miroslav Tichý (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪroslaf ˈcɪxiː]; November 20, 1926 – April 12, 2011) was a photographer who from the 1960s until 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials.
Feb 11, 2013 · There was a film, Tarzan Retired, playing on loop at the exhibition that showed Tichý in his home studio and elsewhere, and the filmmaker also managed to find some of the women Tichý ...
As Nataša von Kopp eloquently notes in her film, WorldStar, the encounter of the private preserve of Tichý’s life and the bombastic pomp of world galleries turned out to be effective but, at the same time, absurdly incompatible.
May 23, 2010 · Dressed in rags and using a homemade camera, Tichy captured the universe of the people in the small town of Brno in the Czech Republic. This discovery of photography saved him from madness and the claustrophobia of political dictatorship.
Feb 10, 2010 · The International Center of Photography is the first American museum to show Tichy’s work, which had been camouflaged by filth and preyed on by rodents at his home in Kyjov, a town in the...
Living in near isolation in his hometown of Kyjov, Tichý conceived a world populated by images of the local women, taking thousands of photographs from the 1960s through the late 1980s.
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Oct 24, 2016 · Miroslav Tichý, Kyjov, Czech Republic. Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý believed that, “If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.” And to do this, “First of all, you have to have a bad camera.” Tichý’s cameras were some of the worst.
