Köln (Cologne) DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag 2005 1st Edition Hardcover New. No dust jacket as issued First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Miroslav Tichy. Essays (in German) by Tobia Bezzola and Roman Buxbaum. Foreword (in German) by Christoph Becker. Includes a biography and a list of plates. Designed by Neil Holt, Köln. 172 pp., with 106 four-color plates and additional black-and-white illustrations. 11 x 9 inches. Published on the occasion of a 2005 exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich. New in publisher's shrink-wrap. A flawless Mint copy. From Kunsthaus Zürich: "With cameras that he himself skillfully and imaginatively cobbled together from old tins, spectacle lenses, toilet rolls and cigarette boxes, in the 1970s and 80s Miroslav Tichy took over a hundred shots a day of women in his small hometown in Moravia...The results of those forays are shots of women at the market, in the swimming pool, at work, in pubs, in the streets and public squares...The shots are taken using cameras without viewfinders, and Tichy systematically ignores the principles of skilled photography, which insists on the fine-tuning of the relationship of the gaze and the world, the gaze through the viewfinder and the gaze of the cold glass eye of the camera. Instead Tichy largely shifts the processes of considered creativity into the darkroom and post-production. The contact sheets show how he lets ...