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• 1960
  Gelatin white print
  Image size: 8 ¾ x 13 inch
  Signed and annotated, in pencil, au reverse
  60-16-61/9
  Printed circa 1985
  Unframed
  Image credit: © The Playwright Morath Foundation/Magnum Photos

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Inge Morath, one of the Magnum agency’s leading photographers, who documented the shooting of The Misfits in 1960 – and later became Arthur Miller’s third wife – was born 100 years ago today (she died in 2002.)

Writing for the Magnum Photos website, Marigold Warner explores Morath’s creative legacy.

“Born in Graz, Austria, a century ago on May 27, 1923, Morath lived in several countries throughout her life … She grew up in the shadow of Nazi Germany, and her first encounter with modern art was in 1937 at the notorious Entartete Kunst exhibition organized by the Nazi Party in Munich, consisting of 650 pieces of ‘Degenerate Art’.

The works were captioned with labels denouncing their moral and aesthetic value, in order to ‘educate’ the public on the ‘art of decay’. For 14-year-old Morath, the exhibition had quite the opposite effect … she later described her photographic practice as ‘a search for inner truth.’

In 1945, a Russian air raid forced Morath to flee Germany by foot. She had moved to Berlin to study linguistics, but was drafted to work at a munitions factory alongside Ukrainian prisoners of war. Morath, 22 at the time, joined thousands of refugees, walking 455 miles to her parents’ home

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Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, and Inge Morath: Revealing Photographs From Inside the Growing Love Triangle on the Set of The Misfits

In Arthur Miller: Writer, the HBO documentary which aired Monday night, the late playwright’s daughter Rebecca Miller, who directed the film, says via voiceover, “I felt I was the only filmmaker that he would let close enough to really see what he was like.” Rebecca, who is of course married to Daniel Day-Lewis, may have been the filmmaker who captured Miller so casually and off-guard, but her mother, the great Magnum photographer Inge Morath, kept an astute lens on Miller for the 40 years they were married, before Morath died in 2002. When they first met on the set of the film The Misfits, which John Huston directed from Miller’s screenplay, the writer was still married to his second wife, Marilyn Monroe. It was a relationship that blew hot and cold, from infatuation to despair, as things tend to go with Monroe. By the time the drama starring her and Clark Gable began shooting in Reno in 1960, the marriage was falling apart. There, with her camera, was the Austrian photographer Morath. She was in Nevada with her colleague Henri Cartier-Bresson after a road trip across America; she already knew John Huston from her work on his movieMouli