Inge Morath

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Inge Morath (born May 27, 1923 in Graz ; † January 30, 2002 in New York ) was an Austrian photographer .

Live and act

The daughter of two natural scientists, born as Ingeborg Mörath , moved with her parents in the 1930s, due to their professional activity, first to Darmstadt and later to Berlin . Before she was admitted to study Romance Studies and Linguistics there , she did a year of social work at a kindergarten in a Berlin workers' district. Morath was just able to pass her state examination before she was obliged to work for a "war-important" company in Berlin-Tempelhof. As a result of a bomb attack on the company, Morath joined a refugee train to Austria , where she struggled to find her parents' home. She first worked as a journalist in Salzburg , where a square has been named after her since 2008, and then in Vienna . With the support of photographer Ernst Haas , she was able to move to Paris in 1949 , where she wrote texts for the Magnum photo agency . It was there that Morath got to know the fascination of photography. In 1951, she completed her photography training in London with an internship with Simon Guttmann .

From 1953 she worked for Magnum, as well as for magazines such as Vogue and Paris Match . She soon became self-employed. Exhibitions in many important museums and galleries prove their worldwide importance. Morath was the first woman to be accepted into the legendary and until then all male communion of the Magnum photo agency.

Morath traveled a lot and lived temporarily in New York . Henri Cartier-Bresson and Gjon Mili vied for the role of their favorite mentor . From 1962 until her death, she was married to the writer Arthur Miller , whom she met while filming the film Misfits with his then-wife Marilyn Monroe . She also went on a number of trips with Miller, which led to ever new books with her photos. In addition, numerous commissioned work was created for agencies, magazines and publishers. Their daughter Rebecca Miller (* 1962) is a painter, screenwriter and film director. The son Daniel (* 1966) was born with Down syndrome , which the couple kept a secret.

Works (selection)

Books as sole author

  • De La Perse A L'Iran , Delpire 1980
  • Dear Augustin - Photos from Vienna, Lucerne 1981
  • Portraits , New York 1986
  • Photographs 1952-92 , 1992
  • Danube , 1995
  • Arthur Miller , Milan 1999
  • Regensburg , Regensburg 2000
  • Saul Steinberg , New York 2000
  • Reno , Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2006
  • Iran , Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2009

Books shared with other authors / photographers

  • Guerre à la tristesse (with Dominque Aubier, edited by Robert Delpire), Paris 1955
  • Persia (text by Edouard Sablier), Zurich 1960
  • In Russia (with Arthur Miller ), Lucerne / Frankfurt 1974
  • Salzburg - An Artist's View (with Othmar Thormann and Verena von Gagern), 1991, Salzburg: Edition Fotohof by Otto Müller Verlag .
  • Women to Women (with Eve Arnold), Tokyo 1996
  • Spain in the 1950s (published by Batuz Foundation Saxony), Altzella 2000
  • New York (edited by Kurt Kaindl ), Salzburg 2002
  • She has also published numerous articles in anthologies, edited volumes and exhibition catalogs.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019 La vita, la fotografia - Inge Morath, retrospective, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy.
  • 2018 Inge Morath From a photographic cosmos.
  • 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; City of Passau, European Weeks, Germany; ESWE Forum, Wiesbaden; Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris, France; Amerikahaus Tübingen, 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; Museums of the City of 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, Milan, 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 Theater 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.

Movies

  • Sabine Eckhard: Copyright by Inge Morath. 1991 (a portrait of Inge Morath)
  • Regina Strassegger (Director): Grenz.Räume - Inge Morath - Last Journey. Documentation, Austria, 2003, 90 min. Interview with Regina Strassegger at 3sat. (Heavily autobiographical; comments in the film by Arthur Miller)

The filmmaker Strassegger has produced a film documentary about Morath ( Inge Morath's last trip - in German, English and Slovenian). This documentary depicts the photographer's life from her roots in Slovenia to her death. Inge Morath died while filming.

Awards

Honors

In 2010 the Morathgasse in Vienna- Meidling (12th district) was named after the photographer. There is also an Inge-Morath-Straße in the Andritz district of her native Graz . In the Salzburg district of Lehen there has been an Inge-Morath-Platz since 2011 . The Fotohof has been based there since February 2012, and has done several publications and exhibitions with Inge Morath since it was founded in the early 1980s.

Inge Morath Awards

  • Inge Morath Award : A sponsorship award for women photographers under 30 years of age. It has been awarded annually by Magnum Photos in honor of Inge Morath since her death in 2002 .
  • Inge Morath Prize for Science Journalism from the State of Styria .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Miller: time curves , German edition Frankfurt / Main 1989, page 663
  2. ^ Kurt Kaindl : Inge Morath: Biography of a photographer . In: Inge Morath- Photographs 1952–1992 . Salzburg: Edition Fotohof by Otto Müller Verlag, p. 8.
  3. ↑ La vita, la fotografia - Inge Morath | Casa dei Carraresi | Treviso. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Miller, time curves , page 649th
  5. ↑ Time Traps | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 11, 2007, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 25, 2018]).
  6. ^ Work by the Magnum photographer: Inge Morath. Retrieved December 20, 2018 . , The Hidden Museum (April 26 - August 26, 2018)
  7. ↑ Inge Morath's artist page on the Fotohof homepage
  8. ↑ Fotohof Salzburg , accessed on March 2, 2012
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ingemorath.org
  10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ingemorath.org
  11. ↑ State of Styria ( Memento from January 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Overview of the Inge Morath Prize for Science Journalism with the winners from 2006 to 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Morath, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mörath, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2002
Place of death New York City