Table of contents:
- 1. Photographer Inge Morat
- 2. Russian poet and playwright
- 3. Visiting Zurab Tsereteli
- 4. Andrey Dostoevsky
- 5. Andrey Voznesensky
- 6. Bella Akhmadulina
- 7. Elem Klimov
- 8. Maya Plisetskaya
- 9. Nadezhda Mandelstam
Video: Brodsky, Plisetskaya, Akhmatova and other Soviet celebrities in the lens of Austrian Inge Morat
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Inge Morath was born in the south of Austria to a linguist family. She inherited from her father a love of languages. After the end of World War II, Inge worked as a translator and journalist. In the 1950s, she became interested in photography and even assisted the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. She is also the second woman after Eva Arnold to become a member of the world's most prestigious association of documentary photographers.
1. Photographer Inge Morat
The future photographer Inge Morat was born in Graz in 1923. Initially, Inge studied in French-speaking schools, and in the 1930s she moved with her family to Darmstadt, and then to Berlin. She studied at the Luisenschule near Berlin's Bahnhof Friedrichstraße train station. Morath was native German, but she also spoke and wrote fluently French, English and Romanian, and later learned Russian and Chinese.
2. Russian poet and playwright
In the postwar years, Inge began working as a translator and journalist. In Vienna, she met the renowned photojournalist Ernst Haas and wrote articles that illustrated him with photographs. In 1949, Morath and Haas received an invitation from Hungarian photographer Robert Capa to join Magnum Photos in Paris, where Inge began working as an editor, inspired by the work of the legendary Henri Cartier-Bresson.
3. Visiting Zurab Tsereteli
In 1953, after Inge presented her first major series of works, she was invited to the Magnum agency as a photographer. On assignment from the agency, she traveled to London to photograph residents of the Soho and Mayfair districts.
4. Andrey Dostoevsky
In subsequent years, Inge traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Her early work has a playful surrealism. In her later writings, Morath documented the resilience of the human spirit in extremely difficult conditions, as well as the manifestation of delight and joy.
5. Andrey Voznesensky
Inge Morat first visited the USSR in 1965. She came with her husband, prose writer and playwright Arthur Miller, so she entered an environment inaccessible to most foreign tourists.
6. Bella Akhmadulina
After returning to the United States, Morath worked without traveling abroad in order to be able to raise children. In the 1970s, her books "In Russia" and "Chinese Meetings" were published, which described Inge's arrival in the USSR and the PRC.
7. Elem Klimov
In the 1990s, Morath continued to do both editorial assignments and work on her own projects. In 1991, the collection "Russian Journal" appeared, with texts by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky.
8. Maya Plisetskaya
Morath died in 2002 in New York at the age of 78, having stopped doing what she loved only two weeks before her death.
9. Nadezhda Mandelstam
After Inge's death in 2002, members of the Magnum Photos agency established the Inge Morath Award in her honor, which is awarded to a female photographer under the age of 30 to complete a long-term documentary project.
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