Kender, Janos

LC control no.	no2009034298
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kender, Janos *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kender, John Kender, Jean
See also	Group member of: Shunk-Kender *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Located	Paris (France) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	19370706
Death date	20091205
Place of birth	Pécs (Hungary) Baja (Hungary)
Place of death	West Palm Beach (Fla.)
Field of activity	Photography
Profession or occupation	Photographers
Found in	Wrapped coast, one million sq. ft., 1969: t.p. (Shunk-Kender) Times (London), July 22, 2006, via Times online WWW site, Apr. 22, 2013 (in obituary of Harry Shunk: he and his partner Janos (or John) Kender) Blogos/haha WWW site, Mar. 3, 2009 (Harry Shunk & Janos Kender) Klein, Y. Dimanche, 27 novembre, 1960: p. 1 (in photo caption: Shunk-Kender) DNB in VIAF, Apr. 22, 2013 (Kender, János; b. Fünfkirchen (i.e. Pécs), Hungary; fled to France in 1956, emigrated to U.S. in 1967; from 1957 to 1973, collaborated with Harry Shunk; works from this period often signed Shunk-Kender) <http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018259864> Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Photography Archives Web site, Apr. 22, 2013 (The foundation's Harry Shunk Archive is comprised of two collections of photographic material; the Shunk-Kender Photography Collection contains the work of Harry Shunk and János (Jean) Kender as a collaborative team; the Harry Shunk Photography Collection contains the early and late work of Harry Shunk as an individual. From 1958 to 1973, Shunk partnered with Kender, during which time they formally credited their photography as "Shunk-Kender." Shunk and Kender left Paris for Canada in 1967 and then relocated to New York City. Their creative partnership was formally dissolved in late 1973 with Shunk retaining the photographic archive. János [Jean] Kender was born in Baja, Hungary, July 6, 1937; fled to France in 1956; died December 5, 2009, age 72, in West Palm Beach, Fla.) <http://www.rlfphotoarchives.org/about.html>