#1 DESCOVERY: Miroslav Tichy

Go around the Art GAllery of Sydney, in a little and wonderful library-shop, I have found a book about an extraordinary artist: Miroslav Tichy





(from his website)
After studying at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Miroslav Tichý (born
1926) withdrew to a life in isolation in his hometown of Kyjov,
Moravia, Czech Republic
From the end of the 1960s he began to take photographs mainly of local
women, in part with cameras he made by hand.
He later mounted them on hand-made frames, added finishing
touches in pencil, and thus moved them from photography in the
direction of drawing. The result is works of strikingly unusual
formal qualities, which disregard the rules of conventional
photography.
They constitute a large oeuvre of poetic, dreamlike
views of feminine beauty in a small town under the Czechoslovak
Communist régime.