Inge Morath - Life As A Photographer (VERY FRESH COPY) - 1999

MAGNIFIKSA BOOK by great Inge Morath (1923-2002), the first woman to become a full member of MAGNUM PHOTOS, the legendary agency for high-quality photojournalism that has been dominated by men until today.

'To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgot it for anything.'
- Inge Morath -

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'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. All her life, Morath would remain a prolific diarist and letter-writer, retaining a dual gift for words and pictures that made her unusual among her colleagues.
In the following years, Morath traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Her special interest in the arts found expression in photographic essays published by a number of leading magazines. After her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller in 1962, Morath settled in New York and Connecticut. She first visited the USSR in 1965. In 1972 she studied Mandarin and obtained a visa to China, making the first of many trips to the country in 1978.
Morath was at ease anywhere. Some of her most important work consists of portraits, but of passers-by as well as celebrities. She was also adept at photographing places: her pictures of Boris Pasternak’s home, Pushkin’s library, Chekhov’s house, Mao Zedong’s bedroom, artists’ studios and cemetery memorials are permeated with the spirit of invisible people still present. Inge Morath died in New York City on 30 January 2002.'
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Kunsthalle Wien. Kehayoff, Munich. 1999. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 220 x 270 mm. 183 pages. Photos: Inge Morath. Edited by Kunsthalle, Vienna and the autors. Design: Rita Bertolini, Bregenz. Contributors: Sabine Folie, Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Gerald Matt, Rolf Sachsse. Text in English.

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Book and dustjacket excellent, very fresh and flawless; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Very light trace of use; no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine condition.

Great photobook by Magnum photographer Inge Morath with original dustjacket -
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