Besides Jaromír Funke, Josef Sudek and Tibor Honty the exhibition also remembers less well known personalities of Czech photography in the early 20th century: Josef Pírka, Jaroslav Krupka, Jiří Lehovec, Josef Voříšek and Viktor Schück.
In the 1970s Fárová worked in the museum’s photographic collection. The contribution she made was new conception, outstanding acquisitions of classics as well as works by the younger photographic generation. Fárová also worked on many important domestic and foreign exhibition projects which helped to gain recognition for Czech photography in international circles.
Anna Fárová was one of few experts in this country who wrote of photography in terms of art, she discovered and brought to the world many Czech artists. Her publications and exhibitions helped to bring fame to such names as Josef Sudek and František Drtikol. She also brought the classics of world photography to socialist Czechoslovakia.
As well as obtaining acquisitions for the museum, where she worked until she signed Charta 77, she also built up her own private collection of creative art and photography. The basis of this was paintings from the estate of her father, Miloš Šafránek, a Czech diplomat in France. The collection also includes works by artists primarily among Prague surrealist groups of the 1940s and 50s, later also by young non-conformist artists. Further works by Czechoslovakian and foreign photographers accumulated from the 1950s onwards, mostly as gifts.
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