Ata Kandó
| Ata Kandó | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Etelka Görög 17 September 1913 Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Other names | Etelka Kandó, Etelka van der Elsken |
| Occupation | photographer |
| Spouse(s) | Gyula Kandó (1908-1968)(m. 1931, div. ca. 1950) Ed van der Elsken (m. 1954, div. 1955) |
Ata Kandó (born 17 September 1913) is 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 traveled 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.
Etelka Görög was born on 17 September 1913 to a family of Hungarian Jewsish descent in Budapest, Hungary to Margit (née Beke) and Imre Görög. Her father was a high school teacher and translator of Russian literature. He had been a prisoner of war in Russia during the First World War. Her mother translated Scandinavian literature into Hungarian and spoke five languages. Etelka's maternal grandfather, Manó Beke was a noted mathematician.
When she learned to talk, Etelka was unable to pronounce her own name and called herself Ata, which she has continued to use since childhood. Both parents encouraged their daughter in pursuing an artistic profession. She liked drawing and was enrolled in the Sándor Bortnyik private academy. Other students included the artists Victor Vasarely and Gyula Kandó, with whom she married in 1931. The couple moved to Paris but due to financial difficulties, returned to Budapest in 1935. Changing her studies to photography, Kandó began studying with Klára Wachter and Mariann Reismann and then completed an apprenticeship with Ferenc Haár. She completed her exams studying under József Pécsi.
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