Miroslav tichy

Miroslav Tichy

"Miroslav Tichý (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. Most of his subjects were unaware that they were being photographed. A few struck beauty-pageant poses when they sighted Tichý, perhaps not realizing that the parody of a camera he carried was real."

miroslav tichy

Trained in academic painting, Tichý secretly engaged in photography only in 1970. Obsessive, if not fetishistic, he photographs women surreptitiously with the camera he built. His blurry photographs, sometimes enhanced with a pen border, are part of …

Miroslav Tichý (November 20 1926) is a Czech photographer and painter. During many years Tichý wandered the small Moravian town of Kyjov (in the Czech Republic) in rags, pursuing his obsession with…

When you first look at this, you may think it’s just a toy fashioned by a child in a kindergarten school class. But this, and many other such contraptions, have been built by a man whose name…

Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could never quite decide. Miroslav Tichý took nearly a hundred photographs a day with his homemade camera, wandering around the streets of his hometown, often spotted at bus stops, the main square, the park an

MT Inv. No 2-6 - Miroslav Tichý

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