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Inge Morath - Her Life. Her Photography.

Un lama a Times Square, New York, 1957 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Magnum Photos
Un lama a Times Square, New York 1957 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum Photos
Senza titolo, 1962 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum Photos
Audrey Hepburn sul set di Unforgiven, Messico 1959 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum Photos
Marylin Monroe sul set di Misfits, Nevada 1960 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum Photos
Senza titolo, 1961 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum Photos
Autoscatto, Gerusalemme1958

“Photography is a strange phenomenon: you trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul” Inge Morath

140 photos as an example of the talent and soul of Inge Morath, a tireless traveler, a fine intellectual, a polyglot and above all an extraordinary photographer. In Museo di Roma in Trastevere, a great exhibit accurately portrays the professional career and life of the first female photographer who worked in the famous Magnum Photos agency, at the time a world for men only. 

Born in Graz in 1923, she moved at an early age with her parents in Germany: the dramatic events of the Second World War reflect in her production and her style, marked by profound humanity and by the awareness of the value of resilience and life. Her relationship with photography develops and grows gradually: a friend of Ernst Haas, she is invited by Robert Capa to join the newly-founded Magnum agency as an editor and researcher. She begins photographing in 1951. Two years later he joins the agency as a photographer, initially working alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson and learning from him the aesthetics of the “decisive moment”.

From that moment on, he travels around the world, making reportages prepared with painstaking care in Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and the US, where she meets his future husband Arthur Miller, but also in Russia and China. Her culture and knowledge of other languages, including Russian and Mandarin, allow her to understand different worlds and cultures and to get in touch with people with deep empathy.

Whether they show landscapes, famous people, ordinary people or situations, her photos are always characterized by a personal vision, by the ability to capture the nuances of everyday life, by attention to the link between human beings and their vital context, but also from the research of the funny and surreal aspects of existence, from the ironic interpretation of the facts. An example of this is the series of curious photographic portraits with the masks by illustrator Saul Steinberg.
 

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When 
from 30 November 2019 to 19 January 2020
POINT (12.4689868 41.8900398)
Contacts 
Online purchase: 
https://museiincomuneroma.vivaticket.it/ita/event/mostre-trastevere-mostra-taccuini-romani-inge-morath/140677?idt=2388
Web site: 
www.museodiromaintrastevere.it/mostra-evento/inge-morath
Timetables 

Dal 30 novembre 2019 al 19 gennaio 2020
Da martedì a domenica ore 10.00 - 20.00
24 e 31 dicembre 10.00 - 14.00
Chiuso: lunedì, 25 dicembre, 1 gennaio
N.B. per eventuali aperture e/o chiusure straordinarie consultare la pagina dedicata agli Avvisi
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Giorni di chiusura 
Monday
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Location

Inge Morath - La vita. La fotografia, Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b
Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b
41° 53' 24.144" N, 12° 28' 8.3532" E

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Un lama a Times Square, New York 1957 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum PhotosSenza titolo, 1962 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum PhotosAudrey Hepburn sul set di Unforgiven, Messico 1959 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum PhotosMarylin Monroe sul set di Misfits, Nevada 1960 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum PhotosSenza titolo, 1961 © Fotohof archiv Inge Morath Foundation Magnum PhotosAutoscatto, Gerusalemme1958

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