Her publishing activities helped to establish photography as an art discipline within the country.
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.
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.