What is Ata Kandó?
'''Ata Kandó''' (born '''Etelka Görög'''; 17 September 1913 – 14 September 2017) was a Hungarian-Dutch photographer of [[Jewish]] descent.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.terasz.hu/main.php?id=egyeb&page=cikk&cikk_id=4755 |title=www.terasz.hu |access-date=2017-09-15 |archive-date=2009-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118064953/http://www.terasz.hu/main.php?id=egyeb&page=cikk&cikk_id=4755 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was born in [[Budapest]], Hungary. 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 the 1930s she stayed two times in [[Paris]]. During the war she lived in Hungary, but after the war she returned to Paris.She moved to the Netherlands in 1954. 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. Kandó died at the age of 103 in [[Bergen, North Holland|Bergen]], [[Netherlands]] on 14 September 2017.<ref>[http://24.hu/kultura/2017/09/15/meghalt-a-legidosebb-magyar-fotomuvesz/ Meghalt a legidősebb magyar fotóművész] {{in lang|hu}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *{{cite news|last1=Hollak|first1=Rosan|title=Meer dan de vrouw van|url=http://vorige.nrc.nl/kunst/article1766865.ece|access-date=25 April 2016|publisher=[[NRC Handelsblad]]|date=5 February 2007|location=Amsterdam, The Netherlands|language=nl|trans-title=More than just the wife}}} *{{cite news|last1=Miklós|first1=Vincze|title=Ismeretlen magyarok: Ata Kandó, a modern fotográfia egyik legsokszínűbb művésze|url=http://24.hu/elet-stilus/2016/01/22/ismeretlen-magyarok-ata-kando-