MIROSLAV TICHÝ
Photograph from ilnostrodomani.org.
About
Miroslav Tichý, a photographer who made homemade cameras out of cardboard tubes, cans and other materials by hand. With these creations he took thousands of surreptitious photographs of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic between 1960 and 1985.
ARTWORK
His photographic pieces are as eccentric as his personality. His shots are fleeting and capture moments of everyday life of the women of Kyjov, softly focused, skewed, smudged and poorly printed, due to the limitations of his handmade cameras and a series of intentional processing errors with which he sought to add poetic and unusual imperfections.
Blurry reality
Judith Scott reminds us that art has no boundaries or labels. It is a universal expression of human experience, transcending barriers of language and culture.
Everyday photography
"First of all, you have to have a bad camera.... And do something more wrong than anyone else in the whole world."
