L'Homme à la Mauvaise Caméra

Hardcover | first edition | 64 pages

Published by Artvox Édition / Jannink, 2012.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels, March–April 2012. After studying at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011) withdrew into isolation in his hometown of Kyjov, Moravia. From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, he photographed women in the streets and at the local swimming pool using cameras he constructed by hand from cardboard tubes, tin cans and salvaged materials, polishing the lenses with toothpaste. The resulting images — blurred, underexposed, spotted, deliberately flawed — disregard every convention of the medium. He later mounted them on handmade frames and reworked them in pencil, pushing the photographs toward drawing. Tichý was introduced to the international art world by Harald Szeemann at the Seville Biennale in 2004, followed by exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Centre Pompidou. Text in French.

Texts by Pascal Polar, Harald Szeemann, Marc Lenot, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Nick Cave.

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