Tichy was born in 1926 in the Czeck Republic and attended the Academy of the Arts in Prague as a painter. In the 60's he began photographing local women with homemade cameras. He would then draw on the prints with pencil to add shape and form then mount them on scrap cardboard. I am drawn to his out of focus images and the idea that whatever he needed he could make. A qoute of his that I find interesting is "first of all you have to have a bad camera" and "if you want to be famous you must do something more badly that anyone in the entire world."
Ben Manns
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