Bertien van Manen

Lena and Styopya, Odessa, Ukraina

1992

Edition of 5

from the series, "Let's sit down before we go"

from the series, "Let's sit down before we go"

from the series, "Let's sit down before we go"
Ed. of 5

Russia I, St. Petersburg Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper. 16 x 20 inches Edition size: 11 Exact dimensions of paper size may vary. Please inquire for add...

Lena and Katya; Juvenile Prison for Girls Ukraine 2009 Signed and numbered, verso Archival pigment print (Total edition of 7 + 2 APs) This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Self Portrait (Paris) - 1995 50x40cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #25087. N...

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 18,1 x 13,2 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...