Miroslav Tichy is the photography discovery of. . . well, his work has been around. But several recent shows have spun off articles that have people who don't normally talk about photography talking about photography. I've written about him on this site before, but if you are not familiar with his work. . . here is a place to begin. The photos I am posting here are my own from the 1970's, but they could pass for Tichy's, I think. I am not at all certain about what I feel when I look at his work. I am at first interested, but that seems to wear off in a few minutes. And then I am left with something else. The "something else" concerns me.
It was his dedication to what he was doing that made his works possible. If he stopped to become self-aware and questioning, if he stopped to think, "What am I doing?" surely he would have been doomed. He probably did ask himself that a thousand times, but he did not let it deter him. He let himself be.
You have to be crazy to do that, I think. I do, however, enjoy his obsession.
Yay -- it is the "something else" that is "it" -- just don't ask what it is. I couldn't tell ya except I'm very familiar with it.
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a lot of your photos have that 'something else'
ReplyDeleteI probably fear that I am too much like Tichy, or could have been given different circumstances.
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