The exhibition on the great photographer Inge Morath moves to Genoa's Palazzo Ducale until Sept. 22

The exhibition Inge Morath. Life, Photography moves to the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa from June 21 to Sept. 22. Previously on display at the Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso( reviewhere ), the exhibition features shots by Inge Morath, the first photographer to join the celebrated Magnum Photos photo agency.

Born in Graz, Austria, in 1923, after studying languages in Berlin, Inge Morath worked as a translator and journalist. A friend of photographer Ernst Haas, she produced texts for his reportages. She is thus invited by Robert Capa to join the Magnum agency as an editor and researcher. She began photographing in 1951 in London and joined the Magnum agency in 1953. Between 1953 and 1954, Morath is also an assistant to Henri Cartier-Bresson.

In the following years he traveled in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The series of curious photographic portraits with masks by cartoonist Saul Steinberg are from 1958. On the set of John Huston ’s The Misfits she met Arthur Miller, whom she married in 1962. In 1965 she traveled to the Soviet Union for the first time. In 1978 she made her first trip to China. Among his most popular subjects are portraits of important 20th-century personalities such as Henri Moore, Pablo Picasso, André Malraux, Doris Lessing, Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Vanderbilt and Fidel Castro.

He died in New York on January 30, 2002.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Ducal Palace.

Pictured: Inge Morath, A Llama in Times Square (New York, 1957).

The exhibition on the great photographer Inge Morath moves to Genoa's Palazzo Ducale until Sept. 22

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