About The Book
A collection of portraits of writers and artists including Jean Cocteau, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Alexander Calder, Jayne Mansfield, and more. With an introduction by Arthur Miller.
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About The Artist
Inge Morath was born in Graz, Austria, in 1923. After studying languages in Berlin, she became a translator, then a journalist and the Austrian editor for Heute.
A friend of photographer Ernst Haas, she wrote articles to accompany his photographs and was invited by Robert Capa and Haas to Paris to join the newly founded Magnum agency as an editor and researcher. She began photographing in London in 1951, and joined Magnum Photos as a photographer in 1953. While working on her own first assignments, Morath also assisted Henri Cartier-Bresson during 1953-54, becoming a full member in 1955.
In the following years, Morath traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Her special interest in the arts found expression in photographic essays published by a number of leading magazines.
Morath was at ease anywhere. Some of her most important work consists of portraits, but of passers-by as well as celebrities.
Inge Morath died in New York City on 30 January 2002.
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Specifics
Inge Morath: Portraits (Aperture, 1986) // Hardcover // 95pp. // 11.5 x 9.75 inches.
