Miroslav Tichý

Part of the Fototorst edition. Miroslav Tichý (* 1926) turned to a life of seclusion in his native Kyjov after his studies at the Prague Fine Arts Academy. In the late 1950s he abandoned painting and transformed into a distinctive Diogenesque figure. From the late 1960s onwards, he began capturing images, mainly of local women, with self-made cameras, which he then edited or adjusted. The resulting work stands out for its completely unusual formal qualities, which ignore classical photographic rules, and creates a vast corpus of poetically dreamlike views of female beauty in the realities of a socialist small town.