Academy of Fine Arts, Prague Alumni - Ale Vesely, Alois Bubak, Alois Wachsman, Bed Ich Feigl, Bernard Reder, Bohuslav Fuchs, Boris Van Berkum, Bo Idar (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Ale Vesely, Alois Bubak, Alois Wachsman, Bed ich Feigl, Bernard Reder, Bohuslav Fuchs, Boris van Berkum, Bo idar Jakac, Dusan Kadlec, Emil Filla, Frano Kr ini, Franti ek Cina Jelinek, Franti ek Kupka, Gezim Erebara, Ivan Mrkvi ka, Jan Bauch, Jan Tomanek, Jaroslav Augusta, Jaroslav ermak (painter), Jaroslav Malina (scenographer), Jaroslav V in, Ji i Anderle, Josef Bosa ek, Josef Wagner (painter), Josef Wagner the Younger, Karel Balcar, Karel Benedik, Karel im nek, Karel Zlin, Ladislav ak, Marijan Trep e, Mikula Galanda, Milan Kni ak, Milan Peri, Miroslav Tichy, Old ich Bla i ek, Rihard Jakopi, Rochus Lussi, Stanislav Feikl, Theodor Pi t k (costume designer), Toma Cisa ovsky, Vaclav Bo tik, V nceslav erny, Viktor Barvitius, Vincenc Bene, Vojt ch Barton k, Zvonimir Eichler. Excerpt: Miroslav Tichy (Czech pronunciation: November 20, 1926 - April 12, 2011) 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 they are being photographed. A few struck beauty-pageant poses when they sighted him, perhaps not realizing that the parody of a camera he carried was real. His soft focus, fleeting glimpses of the women of Kyjov are skewed, spotted and badly printed - flawed by the limitations of his primitive equipment and a series of deliberate processing mistakes meant to add poetic imperfections. Of his technical methods, Tichy has said, "First of all, you have to have a bad camera," and, "If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world." During the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Tichy..."