ISBN10: 3952333204, ISBN13: 9783952333204, [publisher: Taka Ishii Gallery] Hardcover Englisch
[Prague, Czech Republic] [Publication Year: 2007]
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Zürich (Zurich) Foundation Tichy Oceán, and Taki Ishii Gallery, Tokyo 2006 1st Edition Hardcover New. No dust jacket as issued First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Heavy gray cover-stock paper boards with title printed in blue on cover and brown taped spine, with 6-1/8 inch photographically illustrated obi; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs, paintings and quoted excerpts by Miroslav Tichy. Preface (in English and Japanese) by Harald Szeemann. Essay (in English and Japanese) by Roman Buxbaum. Includes a biography with exhibition history, collections and prizes, a bibliography and a list of reproductions. Designed by Élise Mougin, Paris. 188 pp., with 83 four-color plates and 7 four-color and 6 black-and-white illustrations finely printed on heavy matte paper by Art-D and Trico, Prague. 8-7/8 x 6-3/8 inches. Published on the occasion of a 2007 exhibition at the Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. New. From the publisher: "After studying at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Miroslav Tichy withdrew to a life of isolation in his hometown Kyjov. In the late 1950s he stopped painting and began during his daily walks to take photographs of women with cameras he made by hand. He mounted the prints on handmade frames and added finishing touches in pencil, thus shifting from photography to drawing. Disregarding the rules of photography Tichy has created over four decades a large oeuvre of poetic, dreamlike views of feminine beauty. Tichy's former neighbor Roman Buxbaum discovered Tich ...

Zurich: Foundation Tichy Oceán, Date: 2007. First Japanese edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Octavo. 178 (10)pp. Wraparound photographic obi band for tan half cloth over unadorned plain cardboards with blue lettering on covers in English and Japanese. Graphic design by Élise Mougin. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos in photogravure. With essays by Roman Buxbaum and Carolyn Christov-Bagargiev. Twenty pages of photos of Tichy, mostly in color, at front befor Buxbaum text. "Photography is something concrete, a perseption, what you see with your eyes. And it happens so fast that you may not see anything at all! To photograph is to paint with light! The flaws are part of it. That's what makes the poetry. And for that you need a bad camera. If you want to be famous, you have to be worse at something than everyone else in the world!" (Miroslav Tichy). Text in English and Japanese. 2007. Foundation Tichy Oceán ISBN 3952333204 US

ISBN10: 3952333204, ISBN13: 9783952333204, [publisher: Foundation Tichy Oceán, Zurich] Hardcover First Edition Octavo. 178 (10)pp. Wraparound photographic obi band for tan half cloth over unadorned plain cardboards with blue lettering on covers in English and Japanese. Graphic design by Élise Mougin. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos in photogravure. With essays by Roman Buxbaum and Carolyn Christov-Bagargiev. Twenty pages of photos of Tichy, mostly in color, at front befor Buxbaum text. "Photography is something concrete, a perseption, what you see with your eyes. And it happens so fast that you may not see anything at all! To photograph is to paint with light! The flaws are part of it. That's what makes the poetry. And for that you need a bad camera. If you want to be famous, you have to be worse at something than everyone else in the world!" (Miroslav Tichy). Text in English and Japanese.
[Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
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