这本书是20世纪最伟大的摄影师之一的插图传记，探讨了Inge Morath的生平和作品。
在这本包含她职业生涯各个阶段的精美摄影作品的传记中，莫拉特的好奇心，同情心和英勇精神得到了生动的展现。传记作家琳达•戈登（Linda Gordon）向世人展示了经常独自一人作为一名女性在全球范围内旅行的莫拉特，她默默地并坚定地反对当时适用于女性的传统。她的照片展示了她的世界主义精神，这源于她对文学的热爱，她多种语言中的流利程度以及对希特勒统治下的德国的反感。从西班牙到伊朗再到中国，她对世界所有文化的尊重使她成为一位视觉民族志专家。莫拉特是最早加入Magnum团体的女性之一，是一位出色的人像摄影师，尤其受到画家Saul Steinberg，雕塑家Louise Bourgeois和作家Boris Pasternak等艺术家的吸引。她主要从事黑白摄影工作，但即使在她的职业生涯初期，也精湛地使用了彩色胶卷。通过玛格南（Magnum）记录电影拍摄场地的任务，她遇到了亚瑟•米勒（Arthur Miller），他们的婚姻持续了40年。尽管主题多种多样，但莫拉特的作品因与世界上许多文化的亲密和舒适而统一。作为一名真正的世界公民，她的摄影作品同时具有普遍性和个人性。
An illustrated biography of one of the 20th century's greatest photographers, this book looks at the life and work of Inge Morath.
The late playwright Arthur Miller, speaking of his wife Inge Morath, said "She made poetry out of people and their places over half a century." Morath's curiosity, compassion, and bravery show vividly in this biography featuring stunning images from every stage of her career. Biographer Linda Gordon presents Morath traveling across the globe, often as a woman alone, quietly but firmly defying the conventions for what was appropriate for women at the time. Her photographs show her cosmopolitanism, which arose from her love of literature, her fluency in many languages, and her revulsion against Hitler's Germany, where she spent her teenage years. Her respect for all the world's cultures, from Spain to Iran to China, made her a kind of visual ethnographer. One of the first women to join the Magnum collective, Morath was a superb portraitist, particularly drawn to artists, such as painter Saul Steinberg, sculptor Louise Bourgeois, and writer Boris Pasternak. She worked mainly in black-and-white but also used color film exquisitely, even early in her career. Through Magnum assignments to document film sets she met Arthur Miller and their subsequent marriage lasted for forty years. Despite a variety of subject matter, Morath's work is unified by an intimacy and comfort with the world's many cultures. Truly a citizen of the world, her images are simultaneously universal and personal.
