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Miroslav Tichy

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

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Few stories in the history of photography are as astonishing and as compelling as that of the octogenarian Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy. With crude homemade cameras fashioned out of cardboard and duct tape, Tichy took several thousand pictures of the women of his Moravian hometown of Kyjov throughout the 1960s and '70s. These pictures of women going about their daily business are at once banal and extraordinary, transforming the ordinary moments of work and leisure into small epiphanies. Blurred and off-kilter, his photographs have a striking contemporaneity, resembling the early paintings of Gerhard Richter or the photographs of Sigmar Polke. Printed imperfectly and deliberately battered, they evince a surprising retrograde or even antimodernist feeling, which, in the context of the Cold War atmosphere of provincial Czechoslovakia, just before and after the liberalizing moment of the Prague Spring , undoubtedly constituted a kind of oblique political provocation, a nose-thumbing response to the progressive realist perfectionism of official Soviet culture.
The catalogue Miroslav Tichy accompanies an exhibition of the same title at the International Center of Photography organized by Chief Curator Brian Wallis. Critical evaluations by Brian Wallis, Roman Buxbaum, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and Richard Prince introduce more than 250 plates and illustrations."

Language: English

Pages: 328

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Steidl

Release: April 28, 2010

ISBN: 3869301023

ISBN 13: 9783869301020

Miroslav Tichy

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Few stories in the history of photography are as astonishing and as compelling as that of the octogenarian Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy. With crude homemade cameras fashioned out of cardboard and duct tape, Tichy took several thousand pictures of the women of his Moravian hometown of Kyjov throughout the 1960s and '70s. These pictures of women going about their daily business are at once banal and extraordinary, transforming the ordinary moments of work and leisure into small epiphanies. Blurred and off-kilter, his photographs have a striking contemporaneity, resembling the early paintings of Gerhard Richter or the photographs of Sigmar Polke. Printed imperfectly and deliberately battered, they evince a surprising retrograde or even antimodernist feeling, which, in the context of the Cold War atmosphere of provincial Czechoslovakia, just before and after the liberalizing moment of the Prague Spring , undoubtedly constituted a kind of oblique political provocation, a nose-thumbing response to the progressive realist perfectionism of official Soviet culture.
The catalogue Miroslav Tichy accompanies an exhibition of the same title at the International Center of Photography organized by Chief Curator Brian Wallis. Critical evaluations by Brian Wallis, Roman Buxbaum, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and Richard Prince introduce more than 250 plates and illustrations."

Language: English

Pages: 328

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Steidl

Release: April 28, 2010

ISBN: 3869301023

ISBN 13: 9783869301020

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