Miroslav Tichy

art, film August 26th, 2008

Am so enthralled with the photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichy, who made cameras out of cardboard tubes, thread spools, rubber bands, and other similar things, and then photographed public scenes in his small hometown. He developed the negatives in a bucket at night, because he didn’t have a darkroom. Later, he said that the defects and ugliness were where the true art happened.

Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you’re doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.

[via This Is That ]

2 Responses to “Miroslav Tichy”

  1. Blogs Kurt is reading | poindexter, who? Says:
    September 29th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    […] the lucky bugger has gotten his hands on a BlackBird, Fly 35mm TLR. He even posted an article on Miroslav Tichy when news of his work made the […]

  2. poindexter, WHO? » Blog Archive » Miroslav Tichy, redux Says:
    July 19th, 2009 at 12:03 am

    […] more of this work, check out Tichy Ocean, his official foundation, at http://www.tichyocean.ch. Or see my previous blog post of his […]

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