Archive for the ‘The Strange Case’ Category
Miroslav Tichý has died, aged 84. Tichý was a reclusive Czech artist who was rescued from his self-imposed oblivion by a friend, Roman Buxbaum. Exhibitions, books and a website, tichy ocean, have put the artist forward in his last years. Tichý was a sort of artist maudit, a species of outsider represented by the Bohemian artists […]
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Tags: art maudit, entropy and photography, Garry Winogrand Women are Beautiful, hand made cameras, Miroslav Tichý, Roman Buxbaum, tichy ocean
The Strange Case of Vivian Maier
04Feb11
The posthumous career of Vivian Maier develops apace. Amy Stein’s blog has a new video about her, and Chicago Tonight has a longer one. You must see them. Maier is a great enigma, a completely unknown street photographer who left behind a massive body of excellent work which she never exhibited. It was only discovered […]
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Tags: Amy Steins blog, Chicago Cultural Center, John Maloof, Vivian Maier
