Inge Morath

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Ingeborg Hermine Morath (listen), an Austrian-born American photographer who died on May 27, 1923 – January 30, 2002) was an Austrian-born photographer.

She joined the Magnum Photos Agency in 1953, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with the agency in 1955.

Morath was also the third wife of playwright Arthur Miller; their daughter, Rebecca Miller, is the screenwriter/director.

Early years (1923–1945)

Morath was born in Graz, Austria, to Mathilde (Wiesler) and Edgar Morath, scientists whose research led them to different labs and universities in Europe during their youth. Her parents had gone from Catholicism to Protestantism. Morath and her family migrated from Darmstadt, a German academic center, to Berlin, where Morath's father specialized in wood chemistry. Morath was born in Luisenschule near Bahnhof Friedrichstraße.

The Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition, which attempted to inflame public opinion against modern art, was Morath's first encounter with avant-garde art. Morath wrote, "I found a number of these paintings exciting and fell in love with Franz Marc's Blue Horse." "Only negative remarks were permitted, and it began a long period of silence and concealing thoughts."

Morath went to the Abitur and was obliged to complete six months of service for the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service) before matriculating at Berlin University. Morath studied languages at university. In comparison to her native German, she became fluent in French, English, and Romanian (to which she later added Spanish, Russian, and Chinese). "I investigated where I could find a quiet place in the University and Underground stations that served as air-raid shelters." "I did not join the Student Body (Student Body)" ad a student body.

Morath, a Ukrainian prisoner of war II, was drafted for factory service in Tempelhof, a Berlin suburb. She escaped on foot to Austria after a Russian bomber attack on the factory. Morath refused to photograph war in later years, preferring to focus on stories that demonstrated its effects.

Morath served as both a translator and journalist during the war. Warren Trabant recruited her first as the Vienna Correspondent and then as the Austrian editor for Heute, an illustrated magazine published by the Office of War Information in Munich in 1948. Morath met photographer Ernst Haas in Vienna postwar Vienna and drew Trabant's notice. Morath wrote articles to complement Haas' photos while being in synchogue for Heute. Morath and Haas were invited by Robert Capa to join the newly founded Magnum Photos in Paris, where she began as an editor in 1949. Morath was fascinated by contact sheets sent into the Magnum office by founding member Henri Cartier-Bresson. "I think I learned how to photograph myself before I took a camera into my hand."

Morath was briefly married to British journalist Lionel Birch and relocated to London in 1951. On a trip to Venice in the same year, she began photographing. "It was immediately apparent to me that I would be a photographer from now on." "I became incredibly happy as I started to photograph." I knew that I could say the things I wanted to say by showing them life through my eyes." Morath wanted to learn about apprenticeships with Simon Guttman, who was then an editor for Picture Post and was also responsible for the picture-agency Report. "I had found my language in photography after the isolation of Nazism," Guttman asked. Morath had the opportunity to photograph for several months after being Morath's secretary for several months. She sold her first photographs, including images from opening nights, shows, inaugurations, etc. Her name was spelled backwards under the pseudonym "Egni Tharom."

Morath left Birch for Paris in order to pursue a career in photography. He invited her to Capa in 1953, after Morath's first big picture story on the Worker Priests of Paris. Her first stories were stories that did not concern "the big boys." On a prompt assignment to photograph the inhabitants of Soho and Mayfair, she was off to London. Mrs. Eveleigh Nash's portrait from Morath's assignment is one of her best-known paintings. Morath served with Cartier-Bresson as a researcher and assistant at Capa's suggestion in 1953-1954. In 1955, she was invited to become a full member of Magnum Photos. Morath covered news in Europe, Africa, the United States, and South America during the late 1950s, including Holiday, Paris Match, and Vogue. Guerre à la Tristesse, photographs of Spain, was published in 1955 by Robert Delpire, followed by De la Perse à l'Iran, photographs of Iran in 1958. Morath's lifetime produced more than thirty monographs.

Morath, as well as many Magnum members, worked as a stills photographer on several motion picture sets. Morath appeared in several of John Huston's films while living in London. Moulin Rouge (1952), one of Morath's oldest jobs and first time in a film studio, was shot by Huston's Moulin Rouge (1952). Huston bought three more rolls for Morath as she confessed to Huston that she had only one roll of color film to work with and asked for his assistance, and occasionally waved to her to point the right times to step in with her camera. Huston said of Morath that she "is a high priestess of photography." She has the ability to see beyond walls and figure out what makes her subject tick.

Morath accompanied Huston and his friends duck hunting on a mountain lake outside Durango, Mexico, while photographing The Unforgiven, starring Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, and Audie Murphy. Morath, the photographer, learned that Murphy's companion capsized their boat 350 yd (320 m) from shore by clicking their telephoto lens. Murphy was stunned, and the boys were struggling. Morath, a seasoned swimmer, came out, stripped down, and carried her bra straps to carry the two men ashore.

Morath appeared on the set of The Misfits, a film starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift with a screenplay by Arthur Miller. Magnum Photos had exclusive rights to film the film, and Morath and Cartier-Bresson became the first of nine photographers to work outside Reno, Nevada during the process. Morath met Miller while on The Misfits as a student at the University of Michigan.

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