Inge Morath, life and photography on display at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere

The exhibition Inge Morath. Life. Photography moves to the Museo di Roma in Trastevere where it is on view from November 30, 2019 to January 19, 2020. The exhibition, which you can read our review of here, is a retrospective on the first female photojournalist to join the famous Magnum Photos agency.

A tireless traveler, polyglot, woman of multifaceted interests and deep culture, Morath was born in Graz, Austria, in 1923. She feared no cultural, linguistic or geographical barriers: her knowledge of several foreign languages enabled her to analyze every situation in depth and come into direct contact with people.

Working relationships with personalities such as Ernst Haas, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson help to clarify Morath’s professional evolution and personal photographic style nourished by humanistic ideals following World War II, but also by photography as a “decisive moment” as Cartier-Bresson called it.

The approximately one hundred and fifty photographs retrace the stages of her major geo-ethnographic reportages, also including the well-known series of curious portraits with the masks of cartoonist Saul Steinberg.

For all information you can visit the Museum’s official website.

Pictured: Inge Morath, Audrey Hepburn, Mexico (1958), © Magnum Photos

Inge Morath, life and photography on display at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere

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