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Gyorgy Kepes was born in Hungary and emigrated to America in 1937. Immediately before this he worked for Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's design studio in London. A painter, filmmaker, photographer and teacher, his work appeared in Fortune magazine regularly and he taught at many of the leading American universities and colleges including the New Bauhaus School, Chicago, M.I.T., Harvard and U.C.L.A. He exhibited regularly in one-man exhibitions in America and Italy and won numerous awards. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Art Institute of Chicago, Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin and elsewhere.