1923-2002
INGE was an austrian born in Graz. She attended Berlin University and she was fluent in six languages. She was very smart and went on to work in journalism among other occupations. During a trip to Venice she began taking photographs, she knew that's what she wanted to do with her life. Morath applied for an apprenticeship with Simon Guttman, who was at that time an editor for Picture Post and running the picture-agency Report. When she was asked why she wanted to be a photographer, she said she found a language in photography. She sold her first photographs, of opening nights, exhibitions, inaugurations, etc., under the name Egni Tharom, which is her own name spelled backwards. In 1953, Morath presented her first large picture story to Capa, and he invited her to join the agency as a photographer. Morath's portrait of Mrs. Evelyn Nash, is among her best known photographs. In 1953-54, Morath worked with Cartier-Bresson as a researcher and assistant, and 55 she was invited to become a full member of Magnum Photos. During the late 1950s Morath traveled widely, covering stories in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United States, and South America for Vogue.Morath worked again with Huston in 1960 on the set of The Misfits,a screenplay by Arthur Miller. Magnum Photos had the rights to photograph ]Morath and Cartier-Bresson were two of the nine to work on it. Morath's achievements during her first decade of work as a photographer are amazing. Alongside with Eve Arnold, she was among the first women of Magnum Photos, which remains more of a male organization. Many write about the element of playful surrealism that characterizes Morath's work from this period. Her work was motivated by humanism, also the end of the war. Her motif was the "endurance of the human spirit under situations of extremes as well as its manifestations of ecstasy and joy". In her later years she relocated and moved to the US where everwhere she went she photographerd and continued to pursuit her love of photography. She wrote many texts, everywhere she went she documented. In 2002 she passed away due to cancer.
In honor of her, the members of Magnum Photos established the Inge Morath Award in 2002. The annual award is administrated by the Inge Morath Foundation, and is given to a woman photographer under the age of 30, to support work towards the completion of a long-term project.
The reason why i love her work so much, is becuase her work is so cosmopolatain in my eyes. She did so many things with hollywood and i love that element. Also she could balance it out and do something meaningful and pretty. Here are some examples...
this is inge's most famous photo. I love portraits and i think this captures Nash in a natural real time. I love that shes not the only person in the photo.
this is a photo from the misfits. even though this is a staged photo, i think she got it in a perfect moment. I also love that every one of her photos are black and white, even though she even had colored film.
she also loved to photgraph artists with their work. THis is an artist with her pot she made. I feel like you get a stong emotion fromt his photo, you can tell the women is proud of her work. I love the element of feeling something fromt he photo.
this is just another common photo by inge. i like the simplicity of this photo along with the others, it teaches me that the simpliler the better. i also love the contrast, it isnt as harsh as snow usually looks like
so this is one of the few photos i found that isnt in color...and isnt a portrait. i stilll really like it, it still keeps the theme she always has. it definately takes you back to the day and shows a common scene, i love going back and placing myself in that spot.
