"To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgot it for anything." - Inge Morath - WONDERFUL BOOK by Inge Morath, the famous photographer and one of the first women members of the legendary Magnum photo agency. New, mint, unread - COLLECTOR'S COPY. THIS IS AN EXCLUSIVE BEST-OF-PHOTOBOOKS AUCTION - by 5Uhr30.com, Cologne, Germany. We guarantee detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. "Witty, playful, and effortlessly chic, 'Inge Morath: On Style' reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades. This book follows the photojournalist Inge Morath (1923-2002) through intimate sessions with Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn; scenes of window-shopping on Fifth Avenue; American girls discovering Paris; the frenetic splendor of society balls; and working women - from actresses to seamstresses to writers- everywhere taking their place in the world. Born in Austria, she joined Magnum Photos as a photographer in 1953. She traveled widely, covering stories in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United States, and South America, and her work was published in LIFE, Holiday, Paris Match, and Vogue, among others, throughout the late 1950s. The photographs in 'On Style' focus on an extraordinary period of Morath's creativity from the early 1950s to mid-1960s, with a coda of work from later years. In these images, one sees the fundamental humanism, joy, and ecstasy that characterized her work and made her one of the most celebrated photographers of her time. Whether featuring society balls, artists' studios, film sets, the streets, or fashion runways, Morath's photography is distinguished by an unerring eye for life's brilliant theatricality." (from the publisher) Abrams, New York. 2016. First edition, first printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. 260 x 310 mm. 288 pages. Photos: Inge Morath. Editor: Sarah Massey. Designer: John Gall. Co-designer: Najeebah Al-Ghadban. Production Manager: Anet Sirna-Bruder. Introduction by Justine Picardie. Edited and with an afterword by John P. Jacob. Text in English. Great photobook - in perfect condition. "A friend of photographer Ernst Haas, INGE MORATH (1923-2002) wrote articles to accompany his photographs and was invited by Robert Capa and Ernst Haas to Paris to join the newly founded MAGNUM agency as an editor and researcher. She began photographing in London in 1951 and joined MAGNUM Photos as a photographer in 1953. While working on her own first assignments, INGE MORATH also assisted Henri Cartier-Bresson during 1953-54, becoming a full MAGNUM member in 1955." (from Magnum's website) "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." (from Magnum's website)