the photography of MIROSLAV TICHY

I love the way Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy captured the female form. Initially a painter, in the late 60's he began to photograph women who were lounging at public pools or sitting in cafe's - very "street style" of today. What's amazing is that his cameras were homemade. He used old cardboard tubes, thread spools, tin cans, rubber bands, childrens glasses & junk he'd find on the street. He had no darkroom & so would developed his negatives by moonlight - in a bucket. 

He said that "the defects & ugliness were where the true art happened."  

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http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/
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http://www.jirisvestka.com/artist-detail/miroslav-tichy