Magnum photographer Inge MORATH died in New York January 30, 2002. Shewas born in Graz, Austria in 1923. Her parents were scientists and took her along on their many European assignments. After studying languages in Berlin, she became a translator, then a journalist and the Austrian editor for Heute, an Information Service Branch publication based in Munich. All her life Morath would remain a prolific diary and letter-writer, retaining a dual gift for words and pictures that made her unusual among her colleagues. A friend of photographer Ernst Haas, she wrote articles to accompany his photographs and was invited to Paris with Haas by Robert Capa to join the just-founded Magnum agency as an editor. She began photographing in London in 1951, and assisted Henri Cartier-Bresson as a researcher in 1953-54. In 1955, after working for 2 years as a photographer, she became a member. In the following years, Morath traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Her special interest in the arts found expression in photographic essays published by a number of leading magazines. After her 1962 marriage to Arthur Miller, Morath settled in New York and Connecticut and made her first trip to the USSR in 1965. As of 1972, Morath studied Mandarin and obtained a visa to China, making the first of many trips to the People's Republic of China in 1978. In the 1980s and '90s, Morath continued to pursue both assignments and independent projects. She has won numerous awards, including being... Morath is at ease anywhere and some of her best achievements are in portraits, posed images of celebrities as well as fleeting images of anonymous passersby. Another gift is her feeling for places: her pictures of Boris Pasternak's home, Pushkin's library, Chekhov's house, Mao Tse Tung's bedroom, artists' studios or cemetery memorials are permeated with the spirit of invisible people still present. (http://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYD1D6R0O) undefined

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