Ata Kandó
Ata Kandó | |
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Self-portrait, Paris (1935-1937) Dutch Photo Museum | |
| Born | Etelka Görög 17 September 1913 |
| Died | 14 September 2017 (aged 103) |
| Nationality | Hungarian/Dutch |
| Other names | Etelka Görög
Etelka Kandó Etelka van der Elsken |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, humanitarian |
| Spouse(s) | Gyula Kandó (1908-1968)(m. 1931, div. ca. 1950) Ed van der Elsken (m. 1954, div. 1955) |
| Children | 3 |
| Righteous Among the Nations |
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Ata Kandó (born Etelka Görög; 17 September 1913 – 14 September 2017) was a Hungarian-born Dutch photographer. Beginning her photography practice in the 1930s with children's photography, Kandó later worked as a fashion photographer, photographed refugees and travelled to the Amazon to photograph landscapes and indigenous people.
In 1959, she won a silver medal in Munich for fashion photography and then in 1991, received the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal; this was followed in 1998 with the Imre Nagy Prize and that same year, she and her husband received the Righteous Among the Nations, awarded by Israel for saving Jews during the Holocaust. In 1999 she was awarded the Hungarian Photographers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.