Inge Morath — Studio Notes — STEPHANIE ECHE
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STEPHANIE ECHE
I love this piece by Inge Morath. You can get a signed and numbered limited edition print from the Corcoran gallery. It's from the documentary about Inge's life as a photographer by German filmmaker Sabine Eckhard.

Born in Austria in 1923 to two scientists, Morath grew up in Germany and studied language at Berlin University, speaking French, English, Romanian and German (and according to her foundation later Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese) -- amazing! Towards the end of WWII, she escaped to Austria and worked as a journalist and translator. In post-war Vienna she met photographer Ernst Haas and started writing articles to accompany his photographs.

During a visit to Venice in 1951, she started taking photographs.

“It was instantly clear to me that from now on I would be a photographer,” she wrote. “As I continued to photograph I became quite joyous. I knew that I could express the things I wanted to say by giving them form through my eyes.”

Morath got an apprenticeship, used the pseudonym Egni Tharom to sell her first photographs and soon moved to Paris. She started as a photographer capturing small assignments and by 1955 was a full member of Magnum Photos Agency traveling the world.