About the Austrian Magnum photographer Inge MORATH

Ingeborg "Inge" MORATH moved with her parents in the 1930s, first to Darmstadt and later to Berlin, due to their occupation. As a result of a bombing raid on the company where she was working, she joined a refugee train to Austria. She first worked as a journalist in Salzburg, then in Vienna. With the support of photographer Ernst HAAS, she moved to Paris in 1949, where she wrote texts for the Magnum photo agency. In 1951 she completed her photography training in London with an internship with Simon GUTTMANN, and from 1953 worked for Magnum, and also for magazines such as Vogue and Paris Match, and soon worked independently. She was the first woman to join the legendary and until then all-male circle of the Magnum photo agency. From 1962 until her death she was married to the writer Arthur Miller. In 1991 she was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Photography. Inge MORATH lived and worked in New York and Connecticut until her death in 2002. Since 2002, Magnum Photos has presented the annual 'Inge Morath Award' in her honor, a promotional prize for female photographers under the age of 30.

Photo books by, about and with works by Inge MORATH

  • 'Guerre à la tristesse' (1955); 'Persia' (1960); 'In Russia' (1974); 'Inge Morath. Library of Photography, Volume 9' (1979); 'De La Perse A L'Iran' (1980); 'Der liebe Augustin. Photos aus Wien' (1981); 'Portraits' (1986); 'Russian Journal' (1991); 'Photographs 1952-1992' (1992); 'Danube' (1995); 'Gypsies: Free Spirits of the Open Steppe' (1998); 'Portraits' (1999); 'Magna Brava: Magnum's Women Photographers' (1999); 'Spain in the Fifties' (2000); 'Women See Women: A Pictorial History of Women's Photography from Julia Margaret-Cameron to Inez van Lamsweerde' (2001, 2020); 'New York' (2002); 'Venezia' (2003); 'Last Journey/Border.Spaces' (2003); 'Espelho Meu. Portugal Visto Por Fotógrafos da MAGNUM' (2005); 'Reno' (2006); 'Magnum's First' (2017); 'Iran' (2009); 'First Color' (2009); 'On Style' (2016); 'Magnum Contact Sheets' (2017); 'Magnum Legacy: An Illustrated Biography' (2018); 'Great Women Photographers from Two Centuries: Masters of Light' (2018, 2023); 'Life and Photography' (2019); 'Magnum Ireland' (2020); 'From Persia to Iran: an Historical Journey' (2021); 'Homage' (2022).

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This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.
39,80 € * Weight 1.4 kg
The out-of-print catalog 'Mirror Mirror. Portugal as seen by Magnum photographers' was published on the occasion of the 2004 exhibition in Lisbon. A look at Portugal from the 1950s to the present through the eyes of thirteen leading Magnum photographers.
78,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
With works by Robert FRANK, Garry WINOGRAND, Joel STERNFELD, William EGGLESTON, Alec SOTH, Victor BURGIN, Taino ONORATO & Nico KREBS and many more
0,00 € * Weight 2 kg
The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance
0,00 € * Weight 2.4 kg
'MAGNUM's first' reproduces the first MAGNUM show with 83 black-and-white images by the Magnum photographers Werner BISCHOF, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Robert CAPA, Ernst HAAS, Erich LESSING, Jean MARQUIS, Inge MORATH & Marc RIBOUD, reproduced in large format
38,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
The book 'Hommage' for the retrospective on the work of Inge MORATH shows the whole spectrum and the - perhaps feminine? - subtlety of her work. An autobiographical speech she gave in Berlin is the main text of the German-English accompanying publication.
58,00 € *
The out-of-print book 'First Color' by Magnum photographer Inge MORATH spans from her photographs from Spain (1954/55) to the pictures from Ireland and Romania in 1958 to her documentation of the Gaza Strip in 1960. It shows, her unique ability to compose
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'Photographers A-Z' brings together photographers who have made a significant contribution to photographic culture, as well as the most important photographic volumes of the past century. The entries are illustrated with facsimiles from books & magazines.
from 16,00 €
Exhibitions (a selection)
  • 1964: 'Inge Morath: Photographs', Gallery 104, Art Institute of Chicago;
    1979: 'Inge Morath: Photographs of China', Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, USA;
    1984: 'Salesman in Beijing', Hong Kong Theatre Festival;
    1988: 'Retrospective', Union of Photojournalists, Moscow, as well as at the Sala del Canal Museum, Madrid and the Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg;
    1989/1991: 'Portraits', Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, at Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, at the American Cultural Center, Brussels, at the Kolbe Museum Berlin and at the Rupertinum Salzburg;
    1992/94: 'Retrospective', Neue Galerie Linz, at America House, Frankfurt, at Hardenberg Gallery, Velbert, Germany; at Galerie Fotogramma, Milan, at the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, at Smith Gallery and Museum, Stirling, at America House, Berlin and at Hradcin Gallery, Prague;
    1994/95: 'Spain in the fifties', Spanish Institute, New York, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid and Museo de Navarra, Pamplona;
    1996: 'Inge Morath: Danube', Neues Schauspielhaus, Berlin, at the Leica Gallery, New York and at the Galeria Fotoforum, Bolzano; 'Women to Women', Takashimaya Gallery, Tokyo;
    1997: 'Photographs 1950s to 1990s', Tokyo Museum of Photography; 'Danube', Keczkemet Museum, Esztergom Museum, Hungary; 'Retrospective', Kunsthal Rotterdam.
    1998: 'Celebrating 75 Years Leica Gallery' New York; 'Retrospective', Edinburgh Festival, at the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium as well as at the Municipal Gallery, Pamplona; 'Danube', Festival of Central European Culture, London as well as at the Museums of the City of Regensburg;
    1999: 'Spain in the Fifties', Museo del Cabilde, Montevideo, Uruguay; 'Retrospective', Kunsthalle Wien, at the FNAC Etoile, Paris and at the FNAC Barcelona;
    2002: 'Inge Morath: New York', Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg; European Weeks, City of Passau, at ESWE Forum, Wiesbaden, at Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris as well as at Amerikahaus Tübingen; 'Danube', City Gallery of Russe, Russe, Bulgaria;
    2003: 'Exposition', Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris;
    2004: 'Chinese Encounters', Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; 'The Road to Reno', Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois;
    2008: 'Well Disposed and Trying to See: Inge Morath and Arthur Miller in China', University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, USA;
    2018: 'Inge Morath. From a Photographic Cosmos';
    2019: 'La vita, la fotografia. Inge Morath, Retrospective', Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy;
    2022: 'Homage', Kunstfoyer Munich, Germany.