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The out-of-print catalog volume 'Miroslav Tichý' was published on the occasion of the exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York (2010).
Few stories in the history of photography are as surprising and captivating as those of the Czech photographer Miroslav TICHY. In the 1960s and 1970s, he took thousands of photos of women in his home town of Kyjov in Moravia using crude, homemade cameras made of cardboard and adhesive tape. His blurred and extravagant photographs are reminiscent of the early paintings of Gerhard RICHTER or the photographs of Sigmar POLKE. The imperfectly printed and deliberately battered images express a surprisingly anti-modernist mood, which in the context of the Cold War atmosphere in provincial Czechoslovakia just before and after the 'Prague Spring' (1968) was undoubtedly a kind of oblique political provocation.