1. Inge Morath was born in Graz, Austria, to Mathilde and Edgar Inge Morath, scientists whose work took them to different laboratories and universities in Europe during her childhood.
22 Facts About Inge Morath
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Inge Morath became fluent in French, English and Romanian in addition to her native German.
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Toward the end of World War II, Inge Morath was drafted for factory service in Tempelhof, a neighbourhood of Berlin, alongside Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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In later years, Inge Morath refused to photograph war, preferring to work on stories that showed its consequences.
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Inge Morath encountered photographer Ernst Haas in post-war Vienna, and brought his work to Trabant's attention.
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Inge Morath was briefly married to the British journalist Lionel Birch and relocated to London in 1951.
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Inge Morath sold her first photographs - of opening nights, exhibitions, inaugurations, etc.
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Inge Morath divorced Birch and returned to Paris to pursue a career in photography.
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In 1953, after Inge Morath presented her first large picture story, on the Worker Priests of Paris, to Capa, he invited her to join Magnum as a photographer.
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When Inge Morath confessed to Huston that she had only one roll of color film to work with and asked for his help, Huston bought three more rolls for her, and occasionally waved to her to indicate the right moments to step in with her camera.
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Inge Morath has the rare ability to penetrate beyond surfaces and reveal what makes her subject tick.
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In 1959, while photographing the making of The Unforgiven, starring Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, and Audie Murphy, Inge Morath accompanied Huston and his friends duck hunting on a mountain lake outside Durango, Mexico.
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Inge Morath worked again with Huston in 1960 on the set of The Misfits, a film featuring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, with a screenplay by Arthur Miller.
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Inge Morath married Arthur Miller on 17 February 1962 and relocated permanently to the United States.
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Miller and Inge Morath's first child, Rebecca, was born in September 1962.
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For both Miller, who had lived much of his life in New York City, and Inge Morath, who had come to the US from Europe, the Connecticut countryside offered a fresh encounter with America.
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Over a period of several years, they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Inge Morath wearing Steinberg's masks.
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Inge Morath is a tender intruder with an invisible camera.
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Inge Morath wrote extensively, and often amusingly, about her photographic subjects.
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The film Copyright by Inge Morath was made by German filmmaker Sabine Eckhard in 1992, and was one of several films selected for a presentation of Magnum Films at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007.
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In 2002, working with film director Regina Strassegger, Inge Morath fulfilled a long-held wish to revisit the lands of her ancestors, along the borderlands of Styria and Slovenia.
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Inge Morath Miller died of cancer on January 30,2002, at the age of 78.