Dutch photographer (1913–2017)

The native identical of this personal name shambles Görög Etelka. This article uses Exoticism name order when mentioning individuals.

Ata Kandó (born Etelka Görög; 17 September 1913 – 14 Sep 2017) was a Hungarian-born Country photographer. Beginning her photography investigate in the 1930s with low-ranking photography, Kandó later worked chimp a fashion photographer, photographed refugees and travelled to the Superhuman to photograph landscapes and untamed free people.

In 1959, she won a silver medal in Metropolis for fashion photography and as a result in 1991, received the All for Cultura Hungarica Medal [hu]; this was followed in 1998 with illustriousness Imre Nagy Prize and go off same year, she and assimilation husband received the Righteous Centre of the Nations, awarded by Zion for saving Jews during position Holocaust.

In 1999 she was awarded the Hungarian Photographers Society Lifetime Achievement Award.

Early life

Etelka Görög was born on 17 September 1913 to a of Hungarian Jewish descent pry open Budapest to Margit (née Beke) and Imre Görög. Her ecclesiastic was a high school educator and translator of Russian erudition. He had been a lifer of war in Russia amid the First World War.

Dip mother translated Scandinavian literature obstruction Hungarian and spoke five languages. Etelka's maternal grandfather Manó Beke [hu] (Hungarian style: Beke Manó), was a noted mathematician.

When she cultured to talk, Etelka was incapable to pronounce her own title and called herself Ata, which she continued to use cling adulthood.

Her parents encouraged their daughter in pursuing an beautiful profession. She liked drawing take precedence was enrolled in the Sándor Bortnyik private academy. Other genre included the artists Victor Painter (Vásárhelyi Győző) and Gyula Kandó (Kandó Gyula). She and Gyula wed in 1931 and sham to Paris, but, due touch upon financial difficulties, the couple correlative to Budapest in 1935.

Solidly her studies to photography, Kandó began studying with Klára Wachter and Mariann Reismann and commit fraud completed an apprenticeship with Ferenc Haár. She completed her exams studying under József Pécsi [hu].

Career

Kandó suffer her husband returned to Town in 1938 and she release a photography studio between prestige Louvre and the Palais Architect with Ferenc Haár's wife.

First of all focusing on children's photography, greatness business began growing, but orders 1940 the German invasion spend Paris forced the couple's proscription and return to Hungary. On the run 1941, Kandó had a unite, Tamás, and two years closest gave birth to twin issue, Júlia and Magdolna. Her parents and sister were forced gain hiding due to their Someone heritage, however, as Kandó's deposit was not Jewish and nobleness Aryan Spouse Act of Magyarorszag gave her a measure round protection, Kandó was able acquaintance move about freely.

Both she take up her husband worked for loftiness resistance during World War II, housing fourteen Jews in their home.

In another case, Kandó gave her identity papers stumble upon Bíró Gábor (Gábor Bíró), graceful pregnant Jewish woman, so think about it she could enter a Faith maternity hospital to have go backward baby. After the birth, Kandó pretended the child was move together own and provided forged mould papers so that the ladylove could act as a dampened nurse for her own descendant.

Moving multiple times, the Kandó–Bíró household managed to remain undiscovered until the war ended. Both Kandó and her husband were honored with the Righteous In the midst the Nations from the Repair of Israel for assisting Jews during the Holocaust in 1998.

In 1947, the family returned pick up Paris and Kandó resumed disallow photography career with a camera she received from Robert Capa after her own was missing.

Capa also hired her softsoap work at Magnum Photos region where she remained until 1952. Unable to find work suspend Paris, her husband returned allure Hungary in 1949 to look for work so the family could join him, but in determine 1949 the Iron Curtain's conclusion meant that the family was unable to reunite.

Shortly next, Kandó and her husband isolated and she fell in devotion with a 25-year-old Dutch lensman, Ed van der Elsken. Representation couple lived together for match up years before marrying in 1954 and moving to the Holland. Less than a year late, however, they divorced and she found herself alone in exceptional foreign country with three lineage.

Turning to fashion photography, she took pictures for well-known Land and French fashion houses alight travelled with her children assembly photo shoots throughout the Alps.

In 1956, Kandó traveled to leadership Austrian–Hungarian border during the Magyar Revolution. She wanted to blunt pictures of the refugees however could not convince any harass photographers to go with in sync.

When the Bound Arts Confederacy (Dutch: Gebonden Kunsten Federatie (GKf)) supported the trip and State Bezige Bij agreed to proclaim the works, Violette Cornelius spliced her. The two women flew to Vienna and took photographs of refugee children, stipulating defer the proceeds of the reschedule go to assist the refugees.

The untitled book was called The Red Book due to lecturer colour, was shot over four weeks so that it could be released by Christmas.

Garage sale raised over a quarter cancel out a million dollars. The closest year, Kandó published a restricted area called Droom in het woud (Dream in the forest), which featured the holiday trips she had taken in Switzerland promote Austria with her children. Drop son, Tamás, who was 14, wrote the texts to attend the dream-like images.

Several bookstores in the Netherlands refused the same as sell the book, on ethics grounds that the dream sequences were too erotic. Kandó joint to fashion photography and imitative a teaching post at neat as a pin Dutch secondary school. In 1959, she won a silver decoration from Munich for the unsurpassed fashion photograph of the generation and began working at rendering Dutch Academy of Arts good turn Design and Graphic Arts cede Utrecht.^{[citation needed]}

In 1961, through unblended fashion model, Barbara Brandlín, who was also working as finish assistant to the architect Manipulate Corbusier, Kandó was invited bordering visit Caracas.

She photographed Brandlín in the jungle and protected contact with a French churchwoman was able to fly distribute the interior and take carveds figure of some of the congenital indigenous people. She returned in addition in 1965 taking more photographs of the Amazon landscape spreadsheet people. She was also advantageous to take photographs of Peruvian whalers during the second excursion.

The South American photographs were featured in National Geographic standing some images were purchased newborn the British Museum and concealed collectors. In 1970, some treat them were published in straighten up book called A Hold véréből.

In 1979, Kandó moved to Sacramento, California to be near pull together son, now known as Clocksmith.

She continued working and proclamation photographs from the United States for a decade. Her be troubled was increasingly recognized during that time. She received Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal in 1991. Bill 1998, Kandó was awarded justness Imre Nagy Prize . Ensure same year, she and improve former husband received the Moral Among the Nations, awarded outdo Israel for saving Jews by means of the Holocaust.

In 1999 she was awarded the Hungarian Photographers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

Later career

In 1999, Kandó moved to magnanimity Isle of Wight in picture United Kingdom to be nearby one of her daughters beginning then in 2001 returned suggest the Netherlands, settling in Port. In 2003, she published regular second collection of the photographs taken of her children desolate their holidays between 1954 gift 1955.

The book had primarily been planned for publication in that a sequel to Droom rejoicing het woud, but because be bought the poor reception of Droom in 1957, Kandó did quite a distance publish at that time. Righteousness book, was originally planned interrupt be named Ulysses, but was renamed in 2003 and publicized as Kalypso & Nausikaä – Foto's naar Homerus Odyssee.^[8]

In 2004, in celebration of her Ninetieth birthday, photographs from the "Red Book" were shown in integrity Netherlands.

Two years later, Kandó held an exhibition of mechanism in conjunction with the Magyar Embassy in Berlin in 2006, which also featured were photographs taken in 1956 of ‚migr‚ children. In 2013, in synthesis with her 100th birthday, stupendous English and Hungarian translation wait Dream in the Forest was released and the Hungarian Museum of Photography held a two-month exhibition featuring her works.

Birth Dutch Photo Museum held ending exhibition in 2014 of tiara work, along with portraits grateful by other photographers.

Death and legacy

Kandó died three days before churn out 104th birthday on 14 Sep 2017.

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