Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Miroslav Tichy

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Miroslav Tichy

Miroslav Tichý was a photographer who from the 1960s until 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware that they were being photographed. A few struck beauty-pageant poses when they sighted Tichý, perhaps not realizing that the parody of a camera he carried was real.

November 20, 1926 - April 12, 2011
Photography is painting with light
If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever youre doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.
Just put on the lens and go. — © Miroslav Tichy
Just put on the lens and go.
Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.
If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.
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