Anna Fárová
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
[edit]Fárová was born in 1928 in Paris, to a Czech diplomat, Miloš Šafránek, and a French teacher, 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
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Art historian Fárová dies". Czech News Agency. Prague Daily Monitor. 2010-03-02. Retrieved 2010-03-02.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Fárová, Anna (2010). Stoilov, Viktor (ed.). A pásly by se tam ovce... (in Czech). Prague: Torst. ISBN 978-80-7215-387-9.
- ^ a b Richter, Jan (2010-03-02). "Art historian Anna Fárová dies at 81". Radio Prague. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
- ^ Fárová (2010), p. 19
- ^ "Zemřela kunsthistorička Anna Fárová, která žila pro fotografii" (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 2010-03-01. Archived from the original on 2 March 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
- ^ Fárová began her studies at the Charles University in 1948. (Fárová (2010), p.40)
- ^ "Zemřela historička fotografie Anna Fárová" (in Czech). Novinky.cz. 2010-03-01. Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
Further reading
[edit]- Stoilov, Viktor, ed. (2009). Anna Fárová - Dvě tváře (in Czech). Prague: Torst. ISBN 978-80-7215-369-5.
External links
[edit]- 1928 births
- 2010 deaths
- Czech art historians
- Czech photographers
- Charter 77 signatories
- Czech people of French descent
- Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
- Women art historians
- Historians of photography
- Czechoslovak expatriates in France
- Czech women photographers
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Charles University alumni