Miroslav Tichý

« I am a prophet of decay and a pioneer of chaos, because only from chaos does something new emerge. »

Miroslav Tichý

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, 1980’s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1980s (Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York)

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled 1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , -1980 s

Miroslav Tichý-Untitled c. 1980

Miroslav Tichý- Untitled , 1960-80

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, 1960-80s

Miroslav Tichý- Untitled , 1960-80

Miroslav Tichý – Ohne Titel, 1950-80 Courtesy michael hoppen gallery

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, n.d.

Miroslav Tichý -Sans titre 1960 – 1980’s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, 1980’s

Miroslav Tichý- Untitled, c. 1960s-1980s

Miroslav Tichý Untitled, c. 1960s-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – untitled, 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý, MT Inv. No 2-6, undated, gelatin silver print.

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1950-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1950-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, 1980’s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1950-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1950-1980

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, 1980’s

Miroslav Tichý– Untitled , 1960/80′s

Miroslav Tichý Untitled, nude with violin, 1960s-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Ohne Titel, 1950-80 Courtesy Tichý Foundation

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Ohne Titel, 1979 Courtesy of Christophe Guye Galerie, Zürich

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, 1980’s

Miroslav Tichý Untitled, c. 1960s-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1950-1980

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1980s

Miroslav Tich‪ý‬- Untitled, 1960-80’s

Miroslav Tichý- Woman by an ice cream machine nd (source Zelouna Auction House)

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, 1970’s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1950-1980s

Miroslav Tich‪ý‬ – Untitled, 1960-80’s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1950-1980s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled, 1980’s

Miroslav Tichý – Untitled , 1960-1980s

Miroslav Tichý, Inv. -Nr. 6-12-7, (catalogue Centre Pompidou)

Miroslav Tichý, Inv. -Nr 4-11-23, (catalogue Centre Pompidou)

Miroslav Tichý-Photogram, depicting author´s drawings with woman nude (source Zelouna Auction House)

MT. Inv. no. 93-74, courtesy Foundation Tichy Ocean

MT. Inv. no. 93-277, courtesy Foundation Tichy Ocean

Miroslav Tichý- Photogram, nd (source Zelouna Auction House)

FOUNDATION Miroslav Tichý

Miroslav Tichý (1926 – 2011) was a photographer who from the 1960s to 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 they are being photographed. A few struck beauty-pageant poses when they sighted him, perhaps not realizing that the parody of a camera he carried was real.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, he 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. »During the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Tichý was considered a dissident and badly treated. His photographs remained largely unknown until an exhibition was held for him in 2004. Tichý did not attend exhibitions, and lived a life of self-sufficiency and freedom from the standards of society. Tichý died on April 12, 2011 in Kyjov.