Dagmar Hochová

The monograph of Dagmar Hochová (1926-2012) reaches readers forty years after the publication of the author's first small monograph in the Umělecká fotografie series by the Odeon publishing house and twelve years after the death of this important documentary photographer and representative of Czech humanist photography. The book traces the life and work of Dagmar Hochová through the prism of her contemporaries' narratives, 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 for which Hochová is known. On the contrary, it shows that during her forty-year career the artist has successfully ventured into areas with which we do not yet associate her name.