handmade matboard:
the disheveled appearance hiding a camera a camera so odd people did not believe he was taking photographs:
and the makeshift darkroom in which he took soot from the fireplace to paint his walls black.
Tichy was the anti-establishment, discovered far too recently in his career.
He repaired his clothing with wire and was kicked out of the local public swimming pool for photographing the patrons. Instead he chose to point his camera through the fence and catch their expressions when they did indeed realize his cardboard camera took a photograph. His eccentricities will be missed.
