Inge Morath: Magnum Legacy: An Illustrated Biography

Beschreibung:

An illustrated biography of one of the 20th century's greatest
photographers, this book looks at the life and work of Inge Morath.
The
late playwright Arthur Miller, speaking of his wife Inge Morath, said
"She made poetry out of people and their places over half a century."
Morath's curiosity, compassion, and bravery show vividly in this
biography featuring stunning images from every stage of her career.
Biographer Linda Gordon presents Morath traveling across the globe,
often as a woman alone, quietly but firmly defying the conventions for
what was appropriate for women at the time. Her photographs show her
cosmopolitanism, which arose from her love of literature, her fluency in
many languages, and her revulsion against Hitler's Germany, where she
spent her teenage years. Her respect for all the world's cultures, from
Spain to Iran to China, made her a kind of visual ethnographer. One of
the first women to join the Magnum collective, Morath was a superb
portraitist, particularly drawn to artists, such as painter Saul
Steinberg, sculptor Louise Bourgeois, and writer Boris Pasternak. She
worked mainly in black-and-white but also used color film exquisitely,
even early in her career. Through Magnum assignments to document film
sets she met Arthur Miller and their subsequent marriage lasted for
forty years. Despite a variety of subject matter, Morath's work is
unified by an intimacy and comfort with the world's many cultures. Truly
a citizen of the world, her images are simultaneously universal and
personal.