Miroslav tichy biography of martin henderson

Thank you for this post Anthony!

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Great shots, some look like bit pervert of women in bikinis but guess thats what he was focusing on. Thanks for bringing Tichy's for more people and helping keep it alive. I need to have some of hes pictures. That is one of the most original photographers i have red about. It's a way of life. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and for a time seemed on the path to becoming an esteemed painter in the modernist mode.

He was a painter until the late s, when he started taking photos, mostly of local women sunbathing, using equipment that he built himself. The cameras were crudely made of cardboard, bottle caps, and rubber bands.

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Tichy mounted his photos in his own handmade frames and embellished many of them with pen and pencil markings. For a long time, Tichy was something between a charming oddity and a local bogeyman. He was frequently arrested for hanging around the local pool and snapping pictures of unsuspecting women. The fact that this was all occurring under an oppressive Communist regime added a certain air of rebellion to the proceedings, whether or not he intended it.

With time, the locals grew accustomed to his presence and would often welcome having their photos taken. His soft focus, fleeting glimpses of the women of Kyjov are skewed, spotted and badly printed — flawed by the limitations of his primitive equipment and a series of deliberate processing mistakes meant to add "poetic imperfections".

Of his technical methods, Tichy has said, "First of all, you have to have a bad camera", and, "If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world. He suffered from dementia and had to be taken care of by his neighbor.