Dagmar Hochová (ENG)

The most extensive monograph yet published on the photographer Dagmar Hochová (1926-2012) traces the life and work of the photographer through the narratives of her generational contemporaries, contemporary documents, the author's archive of negatives and publications about her work published after the fall of communism.
Dagmar Hochová's (1926-2012) monograph reaches readers forty years after the publication of the author's first small monograph in Odeon's Umělecká fotografie series, and twelve years after this important documentary photographer and representative of Czech humanities photography left us. The book traces the life and work of Dagmar Hochová through the prism of the narratives of her generational contemporaries, contemporary documents, the author's archive of negatives and publications about her work that appeared after the fall of communism. The image she presents goes far beyond the brand of child photographer by which Hochová is known. On the contrary, it shows that during her forty-year professional career, the artist has successfully ventured into areas with which we do not yet associate her name. She has photographed World War I veterans, nuns, life in nursing homes and children's homes, Czech and Slovak villages and portraits of many artists. Jiří Pátek, curator of photography at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, prepared this book as a result of several years of research.