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Art: Photography
Miroslav Tichý

When

Jan 29, 2010 – May 9, 2010

Daily

Where
International Center of Photography (1133 6th Ave, 212.857.0000)
Price
$12
Details
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.5708951/k.9236/Miroslav_Tichy.htm
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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.

Jason Jude Chan