Inge Morath
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)
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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
- Austrian State Prize for Photography 1991
- Honorary Doctorate from Connecticut University
- Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
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
- Literature by and about Inge Morath in the catalog of the German National Library
- Inge Morath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Inge Morath Foundation (English)
- Short biography
- Nekrolog in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Radio portrait of Inge Morath in the Ö1 series Chronisten, Reporter, Aufklärer from 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arthur Miller: time curves , German edition Frankfurt / Main 1989, page 663
- ^ Kurt Kaindl : Inge Morath: Biography of a photographer . In: Inge Morath- Photographs 1952–1992 . Salzburg: Edition Fotohof by Otto Müller Verlag, p. 8.
- ↑ La vita, la fotografia - Inge Morath | Casa dei Carraresi | Treviso. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Miller, time curves , page 649th
- ↑ Time Traps | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 11, 2007, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 25, 2018]).
- ^ Work by the Magnum photographer: Inge Morath. Retrieved December 20, 2018 . , The Hidden Museum (April 26 - August 26, 2018)
- ↑ Inge Morath's artist page on the Fotohof homepage
- ↑ Fotohof Salzburg , accessed on March 2, 2012
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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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 |