Photographer - Ata Kandó
Nationality: Dutch photographer of Hungarian origin
Subject of photography: portraiture, fashion and documentary photography
Life dates: Boedapest, 17 september 1913
Sample of work:
www.nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata_Kando
(English translated by google)
Youth and personal
Ata Kando was born in Budapest as Etelka Görög. She came from an intellectual environment. Her father, Imre Görög was professor of history and one of the largest in Hungary translators of Russian literature. Her mother, Margit Beke , was known as an important translator of Scandinavian literature.Because Kando as a child struggling to pronounce her own name she called herself Ata. The surname Kandó that she would keep her long life was that of her first husband, with whom she had three children.
Education and Work
Kandó studied photography in 1935 in Budapest, including the photographer Klára Wachter . Until 1938 she worked as a photographer of mostly children but this work is nothing left. In 1938 she opened her own studio in Paris on Avenue de l'Opéra. She went to work in the war for the US news agency Magnum Photos. After the war she worked as a fashion photographer for several Parisian fashion houses. Here she later met the photographerEd van der Elsken in 1950 in which she in 1954 moved to the Netherlands and married and whom she divorced in 1955.
Netherlands
In the Netherlands, she met other photographers and along with Violette Cornelius she made a book about the Hungarian refugees on the Austrian border after the failure of the Hungarian uprising against communism in 1956. A year later she published Dream in the Forest , a poetic fantasy book where her three children figured. In 1961, she made a trip to the Amazon in South America and was fascinated by the life of the tribes there. In 1965, she returned for a longer stay. Her photos with a strong social involvement in the abuses were exhibited there and a book Slave or Death appeared in 1970. The early attention to the destruction of the rainforest and its living people and their culture. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide.
Teaching and exhibitions
Kandó was also a lecturer at the School of the Arts in Utrecht and the Academy of Fine Arts AKI in Enschede and led many later known photographers such as Koen Wessing and Ad van Denderen . In 2004 there was a special exhibition in Amsterdam on the occasion of her 90th birthday which they made themselves a selection of her work. Berlin was in the Hungarian embassy to see an exhibition of her pictures on the Hungarian refugees in 2006 Kando lives in North Holland Mountains.
Links:
www.atakando.com
www.pinterest.com/julikando/ata-kando-photography
www.tumblr.com/tagged/ata-kando
www.publishedart.com.au/bookshop.html?book_id=6977
www.foam.org/photographers/k/kando,-ata
www.galeries.nl/mnkunstenaar.asp?artistnr=11419&vane=1&em=&sessionti=492597714
www.fotografen.nl/nl/component/nfm_fotografen/fotograaf/id/43435
Subject of photography: portraiture, fashion and documentary photography
Life dates: Boedapest, 17 september 1913
Sample of work:
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www.nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata_Kando
(English translated by google)
Youth and personal
Ata Kando was born in Budapest as Etelka Görög. She came from an intellectual environment. Her father, Imre Görög was professor of history and one of the largest in Hungary translators of Russian literature. Her mother, Margit Beke , was known as an important translator of Scandinavian literature.Because Kando as a child struggling to pronounce her own name she called herself Ata. The surname Kandó that she would keep her long life was that of her first husband, with whom she had three children.
Education and Work
Kandó studied photography in 1935 in Budapest, including the photographer Klára Wachter . Until 1938 she worked as a photographer of mostly children but this work is nothing left. In 1938 she opened her own studio in Paris on Avenue de l'Opéra. She went to work in the war for the US news agency Magnum Photos. After the war she worked as a fashion photographer for several Parisian fashion houses. Here she later met the photographerEd van der Elsken in 1950 in which she in 1954 moved to the Netherlands and married and whom she divorced in 1955.
Netherlands
In the Netherlands, she met other photographers and along with Violette Cornelius she made a book about the Hungarian refugees on the Austrian border after the failure of the Hungarian uprising against communism in 1956. A year later she published Dream in the Forest , a poetic fantasy book where her three children figured. In 1961, she made a trip to the Amazon in South America and was fascinated by the life of the tribes there. In 1965, she returned for a longer stay. Her photos with a strong social involvement in the abuses were exhibited there and a book Slave or Death appeared in 1970. The early attention to the destruction of the rainforest and its living people and their culture. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide.
Teaching and exhibitions
Kandó was also a lecturer at the School of the Arts in Utrecht and the Academy of Fine Arts AKI in Enschede and led many later known photographers such as Koen Wessing and Ad van Denderen . In 2004 there was a special exhibition in Amsterdam on the occasion of her 90th birthday which they made themselves a selection of her work. Berlin was in the Hungarian embassy to see an exhibition of her pictures on the Hungarian refugees in 2006 Kando lives in North Holland Mountains.
Links:
www.atakando.com
www.pinterest.com/julikando/ata-kando-photography
www.tumblr.com/tagged/ata-kando
www.publishedart.com.au/bookshop.html?book_id=6977
www.foam.org/photographers/k/kando,-ata
www.galeries.nl/mnkunstenaar.asp?artistnr=11419&vane=1&em=&sessionti=492597714
www.fotografen.nl/nl/component/nfm_fotografen/fotograaf/id/43435
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