Lot 4443: Tichy, Miroslav Woman pedestrian from behind

Woman pedestrian from behind. 1980s. Vintage gelatin silver print. 15,5 x 16 cm (21 x 16 cm). Mounted to original pink card, frame line in ink and crayon around the image on the mount; number 5-6-290 in pencil on mount verso. Miroslav Tichy studied at the Art Academy in Prague but left after three years without a degree. Later he was at odds with the Communist Cultural authorities. In this period he spent time between prison and psychiatric hospitals. In the 1960s, after his studio was destroyed by the police, he began taking photographs with a self-made camera. His voyeuristic images of women show his obsession with the female form. He lived in chaotic circumstances and never submitted to the rules of the Communist regime. In the 1980s the German magazine Der Stern published an article about his life and photography. Today his work is internationally known and exhibited. - Usual traces of use.