Ingeborg Morath
(May 27, 1923 ? January 30, 2002) was an
Austrian
photographer
.
[1]
In 1953 she joined the
Magnum Photos
Agency. She became a full
photographer
with them in 1955. In 1955 she published her first collection of photographs, of a total of 30
monographs
during her lifetime.
Ingeborg Morath was born in
Graz
,
Austria
. Her parents were scientists. They went to different laboratories and universities in Europe during her childhood. She first went to French-speaking schools. In the 1930s her family moved to
Darmstadt
, a German intellectual center. Then they moved to
Berlin
.
Morath's first encounter with
avant-garde
art
was the
Degenerate Art
show by the
Nazi
party in 1937. It was supposed to make people not like
modern art
. "I found a number of these paintings exciting and fell in love with
Franz Marc
's
Blue Horse
", Morath later wrote.
[2]
Morath went to
Berlin University
. At university, Morath studied languages. She learned French, English, and
Romanian
. Later she added Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Toward the end of
World War II
, Morath worked for factory service in
Tempelhof
, alongside
Ukrainian
prisoners of war. During an attack on the factory by
Russian
bombers, she ran on foot to Austria. In later years, Morath would not photograph war.
After the Second World War, Morath worked as a
translator
and
journalist
. In 1948, she was hired by
Warren Trabant
. She worked for
Heute
. Morath met
photographer
Ernst Haas
in post-war
Vienna
. She brought his work to Trabant's attention.
[3]
Working together for
Heute
, Morath wrote articles to go along with Haas' pictures. In 1949, Morath and Haas were invited by
Robert Capa
to join the newly founded
Magnum Photos
in Paris.
Morath was briefly married to the British journalist
Lionel Birch
. She moved to London in 1951. That same year, she began to photograph during a visit to
Venice
. Morath asked for an
apprenticeship
with
Simon Guttman
. He was then an editor for
Picture Post
and running the picture-agency Report.
Morath divorced Birch and returned to Paris. Her first jobs were stories that did not interest "the big boys." She went to London on an early job to photograph the residents of Soho and Mayfair. Morath's portrait of Mrs. Eveleigh Nash, from that job, is among her best-known works. During the late 1950s Morath traveled widely. She covered stories in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United States, and South America. She worked for such publications as
Holiday
,
Paris Match
, and
Vogue
. In 1955 she published
Guerre a la Tristesse
, photographs of Spain, with
Robert Delpire
. This was followed by
De la Perse a l'Iran
, photographs of
Iran
, in 1958. Morath published more than thirty monographs during her lifetime.
Like many Magnum members, Morath worked as a still photographer on numerous
motion picture
sets. She met director
John Huston
while she was living in London. Huston's
Moulin Rouge
(1952) was one of Morath's earliest jobs. It was her first time working in a
film studio
.
Morath married the
playwright
Arthur Miller
on February 17, 1962. They moved to the United States. Miller and Morath's first child,
Rebecca
, was born in September 1962. The couple's second child Daniel was born in 1966 with
Down syndrome
. He was institutionalized shortly after his birth.
[4]
Today Rebecca Miller is a film director, actress, and writer.
Ingeborg Morath Miller died of
cancer
in
New York City
in 2002, at the age of 78.
[1]
- 2003, her family established the
Inge Morath Foundation
.
- 2002, members of Magnum Photos made the
Inge Morath Award
in honor of their colleague as an annual award. It is administered by the Inge Morath Foundation, and is given to a woman photographer under the age of 30, to support her work towards the completion of a long-term project.
- 1992 Great Austrian State Prize for Photography.
- 1984 Doctor Honoris Causa Fine Arts, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA.
- 1983 State of Michigan Senate Resolution NO 295; Tribute to Inge Morath.
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
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- 2008
Well Disposed and Trying to See: Inge Morath and Arthur Miller in China
, University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, USA.
- 2004
Inge Morath: The Road to Reno
, Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, USA.
- 2004
Inge Morath: Chinese Encounters
, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China.
- 2003
Exposition
, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, France.
- 2002
Inge Morath: Danube
, City Gallery of Russe, Russe, Bulgaria.
- 2002
Inge Morath: New York
, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; Stadt Passau, Europaische; Wochen, Germany ESWE Forum, Wiesbaden; Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris, France; Amerikahaus Tubingen, Germany.
- 1999
Retrospective
, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; FNAC Etoile, Paris, France; FNAC, Barcelona, Spain.
- 1999
Spain in the Fifties
, Museo del Cabilde, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 1998
Inge Morath: Danube
, Festival of Central European Culture, London, UK; Museen d. Stadt Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
- 1998
Retrospective
, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, UK; Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium; Municipal Gallery, Pamplona, Spain.
- 1998
Celebrating 75 Years
Leica Gallery, New York, USA.
- 1997
Retrospective
Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- 1997
Inge Morath: Danube
, Keczkemet Museum, Esztergom Museum, Hungary
- 1997
Photographs 1950s to 1990s
, Tokyo Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996
Women to Women
, Takashimaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996
Inge Morath: Danube
, Neues Schauspielhaus, Berlin, Germany; Leica Gallery, New York, USA; Galeria Fotoforum, Bolzano, Italy.
- 1995
Spain in the fifties
, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain; Museo de Navarra,Pamplona, Spain.
- 1994
Spain in the fifties
, Spanish Institute, New York, USA
- 1992/94
Retrospective
, Neue Galerie Linz, Austria ;America House, Frankfurt, Germany; Hardenberg Gallery, Velbert, Germany; Galerie Fotogramma, Milano, Italy; Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK; Smith Gallery and Museum, Stirling, UK; America House, Berlin, Germany; Hradcin Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 1991
Portraits
, Kolbe Museum Berlin, Germany; Rupertinum Museum Salzburg, Austria
- 1989
Portraits
, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, New York, USA; Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, UK; American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium.
- 1988
Retrospective
, Union of Photojournalists, Moscow, Russia; Sala del Canal Museum, Madrid, Spain; Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria.
- 1984
Salesman in Beijing
, Hong Kong Theatre Festival.
- 1979
Inge Morath: Photographs of China
, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, USA.
- 1964
Inge Morath: Photographs
, Gallery 104, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 2009
Inge Morath: First Color
. Steidl, Germany.
ISBN
978-3-86521-930-5
- 2009
Inge Morath: Iran
. Steidl, Germany.
ISBN
978-3-86521-697-7
- 2006
The Road to Reno
. Steidl, Germany.
ISBN
978-3-86521-203-0
- 2003
Inge Morath: Last Journey
Prestel.
ISBN
978-3-7913-2773-0
- 2002
New York
. Otto Muller/Verlag, Austria.
ISBN
978-3-7013-1048-7
- 2000
Saul Steinberg Masquerade
. Viking Studio, USA.
ISBN
978-0-670-89425-3
- 1999
Inge Morath: Life as a Photographer
. Kehayoff Books, Germany.
ISBN
978-3-929078-92-3
- 1999
Arthur Miller: Photographed by Inge Morath
. FNAC, Spain.
- 1999
Inge Morath: Portraits
. Verlag, Austria.
- 1996
Woman to Woman
. Magnum Photos, Japan.
- 1995
Donau
. Verlag, Austria.
ISBN
978-3-7013-0916-0
- 1994
Inge Morath: Spain in the Fifties
. Arte con Texto, Spain.
- 1992
Inge Morath: Photographs 1952 to 1992
. Otto Muller/Verlag, Austria.
- 1991
Russian Journal
. Aperture Foundation, USA.
ISBN
978-1-85619-102-9
- 1986
Portraits
. Aperture, USA.
ISBN
978-0-89381-244-7
- 1984
Salesman in Beijing
. with Arthur Miller. Viking Press, USA.
ISBN
978-0-670-61601-5
- 1981
Bilder aus Wien: Der Liebe Augustin
. Reich Verlag, Switzerland.
- 1979
Chinese Encounters
. with Arthur Miller. Straus & Giroux, USA.
- 1979
Inge Morath: Photographs of China
. Grand Rapids Art Museum, USA.
- 1977
In the Country
. Viking Press, USA.
- 1975
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit: Inge Morath
. C.J. Bucher Verlag, Switzerland.
- 1973
East West Exercises
. Simon Walker & Co., USA.
- 1972
In Russia
Penguin.
ISBN
978-0-670-02028-7
- 1969
In Russia
. Viking Press, USA.
- 1967
Le Masque (Drawings by Saul Steinberg)
. Maeght Editeur, France.
- 1960
Bring Forth the Children: A Journey to the Forgotten People of Europe and the Middle East
. McGraw-Hill, USA.
- 1958
De la Perse a l'Iran
. Robert Delpire, France.
- 1956
Venice Observed
. Reynal & Co., USA.
- 1956
Fiesta in Pamplona
. Universe Books, USA.
- 1955
Guerre a la Tristesse
. Robert Delpire, France.
- ↑
1.0
1.1
"Inge Morath, Photographer With a Poetic Touch, Dies at 78".
New York Times
. January 31, 2002.
Inge Morath, a photographer who brought a whimsical, lyrical touch to her images from travelogues to reportage to portraits, died yesterday at New York Hospital in Manhattan. She was 78 and lived in
Roxbury, Connecticut
. Arthur Miller, her husband, said the cause of death was lymphoma. "She made poetry out of people and their places over half a century," Mr. Miller said.
- ↑
Morath, Inge.
I Trust My Eyes (Manuscript for Berlin Lecture)
, page 5. Unpublished: date unknown. Inge Morath Foundation.
- ↑
Trabant, Warren.
Letter to Alex Haas
. Unpublished: August 1987. Ernst Haas Archive.
- ↑
Andrews, Suzanna (September 2007).
"Arthur Miller's Missing Act"
.
Vanity Fair
. Archived from
the original
on 2010-12-05
. Retrieved
2010-12-26
.