The Photos of Miroslav Tichy

Untitled n.d. by Miroslav Tichy

This from The New York Times about Tichy:

"At Nolan/Eckman in SoHo, an artist just this side of 80 is making his debut. Miroslav Tichy, born in 1925, is a self-taught Czech photographer who makes his own cameras. His preferred subject, women in bathing suits, might wear a bit thin, but the images, taken between the 1950's and the 70's, have a distinctive combination of dreamlike fuzziness and everyday unidealized reality. They're Pictorialist snapshots. Unfortunately, the cameras are not in the show; the one on the show's announcement might be a sculpture by Dieter Roth."

If you are curious, as I was, about his home made cameras then you can catch some sporadic clues from this tidbit from The New Yorker:

"Tichy's homemade cameras--fashioned from spools, mailing tubes, bottle caps, and scavenged lenses--produce soft, cloudy photos that look like they've been taken in a dream."

Regardless of how he makes the pictures, they are gorgeous photographs. I wish I could make it to the show at Nolan/Eckman. I would love to see more of his work. I have only been able to see the few that the gallery has up on their website. If anybody knows where I can view more of Tichy's work, by all means let me know.

Posted by Paul Hina at May 12, 2005 09:55 PM