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Ingeborg Hermine Morath ( German: [ˈɪŋəbɔrk ˈmoːraːt] ⓘ; 27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) was an Austrian photographer. [2] . In 1953, she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with the agency in 1955.
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 , an Information Service Branch publication based in Munich.
Inge Morath, 1956. Photographer unknown. 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.
Inge Morath was an Austrian-born photographer who was associated with Magnum Photos for nearly fifty years. After her death in 2002, the Inge Morath Foundation was established with a limited-term mission to manage Morath’s estate and facilitate the study and appreciation of her contribution to photography.
Inge Morath's photographs of Connecticut accompany a written portrait by her husband, the literary icon Arthur Miller, of their shared rural life together.
May 26, 2023 · Inge Morath. Persepolis, Iran, 1956. "It was instantly clear to me that from now on I would be a photographer." - Morath eventually picked up a camera in 1951 in Venice. A brief period of rainfall had passed, and a gorgeous afternoon light flooded the city’s rain-soaked streets. Morath was captivated.
Inge Morath: In Her Own Words. I personally arrived slowly at photography. I studied languages at university, took some courses in journalism, worked first as a translator and then as an editor for the Information Services Branch of the occupying American Forces in Salzburg, later in Vienna.
