Ata Kandó, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ata Kandó

Dutch photographer

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1913

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 14-Sep-2017

Profession: photographer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.