Czechoslovakia Through the Lens of Dagmar Hochová

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Czechoslovakia Through the Lens of Dagmar Hochová

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, in collaboration with the Moravian Gallery in Brno, is organising the first public presentation of photographs by Dagmar Hochová in the Netherlands. The selected black-and-white photos in combination with projection on a large-size screen aim to show the reality of life in communist Czechoslovakia before 1989, as captured by this prominent Czech documentary photographer. Dagmar Hochová (1926 – 2012) became famous in her homeland mainly through her photographs of children, although the thematic spectrum of her work was much wider. Hochová herself did not like the “photographer of children” label as it identified her complete oeuvre with an ideologically neutral theme which had a chance to reach the broad public, as opposed to politically or socially engaged photographs. In her portfolio we can find snapshots of absurd situations caused by the illogical operation of the communist economy, photographs of condemned intellectual and artistic elites, series from children’s homes and mental asylums. In her time these images were excluded from public presentation as they were not in line with the illusion of a happy, problem-free society. As a result this segment of Dagmar Hochová’s work reached public awareness later through books and exhibitions produced by the artist after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Czechoslovakia Through the Lens of Dagmar Hochová

Popis výsledku anglicky

The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, in collaboration with the Moravian Gallery in Brno, is organising the first public presentation of photographs by Dagmar Hochová in the Netherlands. The selected black-and-white photos in combination with projection on a large-size screen aim to show the reality of life in communist Czechoslovakia before 1989, as captured by this prominent Czech documentary photographer. Dagmar Hochová (1926 – 2012) became famous in her homeland mainly through her photographs of children, although the thematic spectrum of her work was much wider. Hochová herself did not like the “photographer of children” label as it identified her complete oeuvre with an ideologically neutral theme which had a chance to reach the broad public, as opposed to politically or socially engaged photographs. In her portfolio we can find snapshots of absurd situations caused by the illogical operation of the communist economy, photographs of condemned intellectual and artistic elites, series from children’s homes and mental asylums. In her time these images were excluded from public presentation as they were not in line with the illusion of a happy, problem-free society. As a result this segment of Dagmar Hochová’s work reached public awareness later through books and exhibitions produced by the artist after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

Druh

E_nekrit - Výstava

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60401 - Arts, Art history

Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Místo konání akce

Rotterdam

Stát konání akce

NL - Nizozemsko

Datum zahájení akce

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Datum ukončení akce

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Celkový počet účastníků

1

Počet zahraničních účastníků

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Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků

EUR - Evropská akce