{"id":19216,"date":"2011-08-08T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=19216"},"modified":"2011-08-08T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:11:54","slug":"portfolio-miroslav-tichy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/portfolio-miroslav-tichy\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio: Miroslav Tich\u00fd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19217\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19217\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy1.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy1-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Untitled<\/em>, ca. 1950s\u201380s, black-and-white photograph with graphite, mounted.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to be famous,\u201d photographer Miroslav Tich\u00fd once said, \u201cyou must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.\u201d Born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia, Tich\u00fd spent decades taking voyeuristic photographs of women bathing. His subjects are caught unawares, often through fences or peepholes, in an erotically isolated moment. The pictures are spotted, blurred, crooked, scratched, and underexposed\u2014done, by any conventional standards, \u201cbadly.\u201d These flaws of execution are surpassed only by the crudeness of Tich\u00fd\u2019s cameras, which were made with materials such as shoeboxes, tin cans, toilet-paper rolls, sandpaper, and toothpaste.<\/p>\n<p>Tich\u00fd the man was equally disheveled. A ragged town eccentric, he had been trained as a classical painter but quit the academy after the Communist takeover forced artists to focus on socialist subjects. He remained, however, a diligent practitioner of the arts. He took three rolls of film a day, printed each negative only once, and embellished the prints with homemade frames. The results amount to a clever commentary on the state; his disguised cameras and the atmosphere of surveillance in his work subtly allude to the surveillance of the society at large. But the furtive pictures are also beautiful. They recall the scratched bodies of Degas\u2019s bathers; they presage the soft focus of Richter. Their imperfection imprints them with the personal. As Tich\u00fd himself said, \u201cA mistake. That\u2019s what makes the poetry.\u201d\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_19218\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19218\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy2.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy2-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Untitled<\/em>, c.1950s\u201380s, black-and-white photograph.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_19219\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19219\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy3.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy3-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Untitled, c.1950s-80s, black-and-white photograph, mounted.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_19220\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"1009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy4.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tichy4-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Untitled<\/em>, c.1950s\u201380s, black-and-white photograph with graphite.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_19221\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tichy5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19221\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tichy5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tichy5.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tichy5-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Untitled<\/em>, c.1950s-80s, black-and-white photograph, mounted.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>All Images are courtesy Horton Gallery and\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Foundation Tich\u00fd Ocean and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hortongallery.com\/exhibition\/129\/sun-screen\">Sun Screen<\/a>,\u201d an exhibition of\u00a0<em>Tich\u00fd\u2019s work,\u00a0is on view until September 10, 2011 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hortongallery.com\/\">Horton Gallery<\/a> in New York City.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you want to be famous,\u201d photographer Miroslav Tich\u00fd once said, \u201cyou must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.\u201d Born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia, Tich\u00fd spent decades taking voyeuristic photographs of women bathing. His subjects are caught unawares, often through fences or peepholes, in an erotically isolated moment. 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