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Anna Fárová (1 June 1928 – 27 February 2010) was a Czech art historian who specialized and catalogued Czech and Czechoslovak photographers, including František Drtikol and Josef Sudek.[1][2] She was one of the pioneers of writing on history of photography. Her publishing activities helped to establish photography as an art discipline within the country.

Biography

Fárová was born in 1928 in Paris, to a Czech diplomat, Miloš Šafránek, and a French professor, Anne Moussu.[3] She spent a part of her early childhood in Paris, the family moved to Plzeň, Czechoslovakia only in the middle of the 1930s.[4] Following her studies at the French gymnasium in Prague she continued studying art history and aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague.[5][6] In 1952, she married Czech artist Libor Fára.[2]^: 58 In 1956, her father arranged a meeting with photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.[1][7] The meeting heavily influenced her career.[1] She began working with the Magnum Photos agency, co-founded by Cartier-Bresson, and published a series of monographs in the Czech publishing house Odeon.[1]

She held a number of photo exhibitions across [rague. However, the Communist era Czechoslovak government banned Fárová from working in the country after she became a signatory of the Charter 77 manifesto in the 1970s.[1] Much of her work was published outside of Czechoslovakia during the 1980s, before the Velvet Revolution and fall of communism.[1]

Fárová died of a "serious illness" on 27 February 2010, at the age of 81.[1][3]

References

Further reading

• Stoilov, Viktor, ed. (2009). Anna Fárová - Dvě tváře (in Czech). Prague: Torst. ISBN 978-80-7215-369-5.

External links

• Anna Fárová: a life in photography (Czech Radio)
• Anna Fárová (Gallery Langhans)
• Anna Fárová Multimedia IHNED.cz

На других языках

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- [en] Anna Fárová

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[it] Anna Farova

Anna Fárová, nata Annette Safrankova (Parigi, 1º giugno 1928 – Jindřichův Hradec, 27 febbraio 2010), è stata una storica e critica d'arte ceca. Ha contribuito in maniera determinante al riconoscimento della fotografia come arte nel suo paese e a far conoscere all'estero autori cechi.

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[ru] Фарова, Анна

Анна Фарова (чеш. Anna Fárová, 1 июня 1928, Париж, Франция — 27 февраля 2010, Йиндржихув-Градец, Чехия) — чешский искусствовед, занимавшаяся изучением и каталогизацией работ чешских и чехословацких фотографов, в том числе Франтишека Дртикола и Йозефа Судека[7][8]. Она была одним из первых учёных в стране, ставших писать статьи по истории фотографии. Её издательская деятельность помогла утвердить фотографию в Чехии как вид искусства.

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