Inge Morath

**Ingeborg Morath** (May 27, 1923 – January 30, 2002) was an Austrian photographer.

Morath went to Berlin University. At university, Morath studied languages. She learned French, English, and Romanian.  Later she added Spanish, Russian and Chinese.  Toward the end of World War II, Morath worked for factory service in Tempelhof, alongside Ukrainian prisoners of war. During an attack on the factory by Russian bombers, she ran on foot to Austria. In later years, Morath would not photograph war.

### Middle Years (1945-1962)
After the Second World War, Morath worked as a translator and journalist. In 1948, she was hired by Warren Trabant. She worked for *Heute*. Morath met photographer Ernst Haas in post-war Vienna.  She brought his work to Trabant's attention. Working together for *Heute*, Morath wrote articles to go along with Haas' pictures. In 1949, Morath and Haas were invited by Robert Capa to join the newly founded Magnum Photos in Paris.

Morath was briefly married to the British journalist Lionel Birch.  She moved to London in 1951. That same year, she began to photograph during a visit to Venice.  Morath asked for an apprenticeship with Simon Guttman.  He was then an editor for *Picture Post* and running the picture-agency Report.

Morath divorced Birch and returned to Paris.  Her first jobs were stories that did not interest "the big boys." She went to London on an early job to photograph the residents of Soho and Mayfair. Morath's portrait of Mrs. Eveleigh Nash, from that job, is among her best-known works. During the late 1950s Morath traveled widely.  She covered stories in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United States, and South America.  She worked for such publications as *Holiday*, *Paris Match*, and *Vogue*. In 1955 she published *Guerre à la Tristesse*, photographs of Spain, with Robert Delpire.  This was followed by ''De la Perse à l'Iran'', photographs of Iran, in 1958. Morath published more than thirty monographs during her lifetime.

Like many Magnum members, Morath worked as a still photographer on numerous motion picture sets. She met director John Huston while she was living in London. Huston's *Moulin Rouge* (1952) was one of Morath's earliest jobs.  It was her first time working in a film studio.

### Marriage and family
Morath married the playwright Arthur Miller on February 17, 1962.  They moved to the United States. Miller and Morath's first child, Rebecca, was born in September 1962. The couple's second child Daniel was born in 1966 with Down syndrome. He was institutionalized shortly after his birth. Today Rebecca Miller is a film director, actress, and writer.

### Death
Ingeborg Morath Miller died of cancer in New York City in 2002, at the age of 78.

## Honors and legacy
*2003, her family established the Inge Morath Foundation.
*2002, members of Magnum Photos made the Inge Morath Award in honor of their colleague as an annual award.  It is administered by the Inge Morath Foundation, and is given to a woman photographer under the age of 30, to support her work towards the completion of a long-term project.
* 1992 Great Austrian State Prize for Photography.
* 1984 Doctor Honoris Causa Fine Arts, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA.
* 1983 State of Michigan Senate Resolution NO 295; Tribute to Inge Morath.

## Selected One-Person Exhibitions
* 2008 *Well Disposed and Trying to See: Inge Morath and Arthur Miller in China*, University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, USA.
* 2004 *Inge Morath: The Road to Reno*, Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, USA.
* 2004 *Inge Morath: Chinese Encounters*, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China.
* 2003 *Exposition*, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, France.
* 2002 *Inge Morath: Danube*, City Gallery of Russe, Russe, Bulgaria.
* 2002 *Inge Morath: New York*, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; Stadt Passau, Europäische; Wochen, Germany ESWE Forum, Wiesbaden; Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris, France; Amerikahaus Tübingen, Germany.
* 1999 *Retrospective*, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; FNAC Etoile, Paris, France; FNAC, Barcelona, Spain.
* 1999 *Spain in the Fifties*, Museo del Cabilde, Montevideo, Uruguay.
* 1998 *Inge Morath: Danube*, Festival of Central European Culture, London, UK; Museen d. Stadt Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
* 1998 *Retrospective*, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, UK; Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium; Municipal Gallery, Pamplona, Spain.
* 1998 *Celebrating 75 Years* Leica Gallery, New York, USA.
* 1997 *Retrospective* Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
* 1997       *Inge Morath: Danube*, Keczkemet Museum, Esztergom Museum, Hungary
* 1997       *Photographs 1950s to 1990s*, Tokyo Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
* 1996       *Women to Women*, Takashimaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
* 1996       *Inge Morath: Danube*, Neues Schauspielhaus, Berlin, Germany; Leica Gallery, New York, USA; Galeria Fotoforum, Bolzano, Italy.
* 1995       *Spain in the fifties*, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain; Museo de Navarra,Pamplona, Spain.
* 1994       *Spain in the fifties*, Spanish Institute, New York, USA
* 1992/94    *Retrospective*, Neue Galerie Linz, Austria ;America House, Frankfurt, Germany; Hardenberg Gallery, Velbert, Germany; Galerie Fotogramma, Milano, Italy; Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK; Smith Gallery and Museum, Stirling, UK; America House, Berlin, Germany; Hradcin Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
* 1991       *Portraits*, Kolbe Museum Berlin, Germany; Rupertinum Museum Salzburg, Austria
* 1989       *Portraits*, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, New York, USA; Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, UK; American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium.
* 1988       *Retrospective*, Union of Photojournalists, Moscow, Russia; Sala del Canal Museum, Madrid, Spain; Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria.
* 1984 *Salesman in Beijing*, Hong Kong Theatre Festival.
* 1979 *Inge Morath: Photographs of China*, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, USA.
* 1964 *Inge Morath: Photographs*, Gallery 104, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Selected Monographs
* 2009       *Inge Morath: First Color*. Steidl, Germany. 
* 2009       *Inge Morath: Iran*. Steidl, Germany. 
* 2006       *The Road to Reno*. Steidl, Germany. 
* 2003 *Inge Morath: Last Journey* Prestel. 
* 2002       *New York*. Otto Müller/Verlag, Austria. 
* 2000       *Saul Steinberg Masquerade*. Viking Studio, USA. 
* 1999       *Inge Morath: Life as a Photographer*. Kehayoff Books, Germany. 
* 1999       *Arthur Miller:  Photographed by Inge Morath*. FNAC, Spain.
* 1999       *Inge Morath: Portraits*. Verlag, Austria.
* 1996       *Woman to Woman*. Magnum Photos, Japan.
* 1995       *Donau*. Verlag, Austria. 
* 1994       *Inge Morath: Spain in the Fifties*. Arte con Texto, Spain.
* 1992       *Inge Morath: Photographs 1952 to 1992*. Otto Müller/Verlag, Austria.
* 1991       *Russian Journal*. Aperture Foundation, USA. 
* 1986       *Portraits*. Aperture, USA. 
* 1984       *Salesman in Beijing*. with Arthur Miller. Viking Press, USA. 
* 1981       *Bilder aus Wien: Der Liebe Augustin*. Reich Verlag, Switzerland.
* 1979       *Chinese Encounters*. with Arthur Miller. Straus & Giroux, USA.
* 1979       *Inge Morath: Photographs of China*. Grand Rapids Art Museum, USA.
* 1977       *In the Country*. Viking Press, USA.
* 1975       *Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit:  Inge Morath*. C.J. Bucher Verlag, Switzerland.
* 1973       *East West Exercises*. Simon Walker & Co., USA.
* 1972 *In Russia* Penguin. 
* 1969       *In Russia*. Viking Press, USA.
* 1967       *Le Masque (Drawings by Saul Steinberg)*. Maeght Editeur, France.
* 1960       *Bring Forth the Children: A Journey to the Forgotten People of Europe and the Middle East*. McGraw-Hill, USA.
* 1958       ''De la Perse à l'Iran*. Robert Delpire, France.
* 1956       *Venice Observed*. Reynal & Co., USA.
* 1956       *Fiesta in Pamplona*. Universe Books, USA.
* 1955       *Guerre à la Tristesse''. Robert Delpire, France.

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