This monograph presents Miroslav Tichý’s photographs of women in his hometown of Kyjov, made during daily walks over four decades beginning in the late 1950s. After abandoning painting and withdrawing from public life, Tichý worked with handmade cameras, disregarding conventional photographic technique to create blurred, dreamlike images. He mounted the prints in handmade frames and embellished them with pencil, combining photography and drawing. The work remained largely hidden until his former neighbor Roman Buxbaum began documenting and collecting it in the 1980s, before Tichý’s first solo exhibition in 2004.
