Born in Graz and then a naturalized New Yorker, she was among the first photojournalists to document the twentieth century. But she remains inextricably linked to Venice: today at Palazzo Grimani an exhibition of hers brings back the shots of her reportage
Inge Morath, born in Graz and then a naturalized New Yorker, the city where she died in 2002 was among the first photojournalists to document the twentieth century: from the time of wars to that of celebrities. The first photojournalist to join the legendary Magnum agency, Morath remains inextricably linked above all for her photographic gaze to Venicewhere in 1955 he made his first reportage for the book Venice observed by the great writer Mary McCarthy. But previously Inge Morath, still an inexperienced photographer, had arrived in Venice with a camera, a gift from her mother, in a city waiting to be discovered for her and with a gaze yet to be revealed.