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Miroslav Tichý, Untitled, n.d.
Jan 29, 2010 – May 9, 2010
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International Center of Photography
1133 6th Ave
212.857.0000
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"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world." That's a Hippocratic-like oath according to Czech recluse Miroslav Tichý, whose art brut photographs come to light for this museum exhibition— the very first on these shores. The weathered, low-grade images date back to the communist '50s and are focused, obsessively so, on women; at that, many were shot clandestinely using pieced-together cardboard cameras (a tattered handful are featured in this showcase). Precisely for this highly personal quality, each composition retains an undeniable if peculiar allure.
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