Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011) was a Czech photographer known for his surreptitious and eccentric approach to documenting the women of his hometown, Kyjov. From the 1960s until the mid-1980s, he took thousands of clandestine photographs using homemade cameras constructed from everyday materials like cardboard tubes, tin cans, and plywood. His work is characterized by a soft focus, deliberate technical flaws, and an obsessive fascination with the female body, often captured in mundane or intimate settings such as swimming pools or local streets. Despite his formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Tichý lived a life of self-sufficiency and isolation, remaining largely unknown to the public until his work was rediscovered and promoted by Roman Buxbaum in the 2000s.[1,3,4,5]
