Cagliari: the Italian retrospective of Inge Morath, the first photographer to join Magnum, at Palazzo di Città.

Cagliari: the Italian retrospective of Inge Morath, the first photographer to join Magnum, at Palazzo di Città.

Over 150 original images and documents, which trace the Inge Morath's human and professional journey, from his debut alongside Ernst Haas and Henri Cartier-Bresson in the Magnum Photos agency, to his collaboration with prestigious magazines such as Picture Post, LIFE, Paris Match, Saturday Evening Post and Vogue. This evening, it opens to the public tomorrow Saturday 8th, and can be visited until 1 October 2023 at Palazzo di Città, the Italian retrospective of Inge Morath, the first photographer to join Magnum, one hundred years after his birth.

Promoted by the Municipality of Cagliari and the Sardinia Foundation, organized by Suazes in collaboration with Fotohof and Magnum Photos, the exhibition “reflects her figure, a tireless traveller, polyglot, a woman with multifaceted interests who does not fear cultural, linguistic or geographical barriers. Inge Morath is a fundamental piece of that parallel history of culture declined according to the rules of a feminine sensitivity that produces new expressive codes and new points of view”, explained the councilor Maria Dolores Picciau.

In this sense "Palazzo di Città aims to become a laboratory to enhance the role of women in the constraints of a plural and complex world, without recriminations, but in the authentic sense of addition and surplus value that art above all can communicate", has stressed the representative of the Council Truzzu owner of Culture meeting journalists right in the fourteenth-century rooms of Piazza Palazzo.

So too Enrica Anedda Endric. "Cagliari – said the president of the Culture Commission – is increasingly opening up to the world”. And the international caliber of the Palazzo di Città exhibition also contributes to offering a “further cultural opportunity for both citizens and visitors and tourists".

Il exhibition itinerary presents some of its own most famous reports, like the one made in Venice in 1955, with images taken in less frequented places and in the working-class neighborhoods of the lagoon city, which embrace the photographic tradition of the Magnum agency of portraying people in their daily lives.

The itinerary by Inge Morath continues in Spain, in Communist Romania, in his native place Austria, is in the UK. Also on display is a section dedicated to Paris, one of Inge Morath's 'places of heart', where she met the founders of the Magnum agency: Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and Robert Capa and where her interest in bizarre aspects clearly emerges of daily life.

Also present are the shots taken in Iran, moving within the female dimension and capturing the relationship between old traditions and the transformations triggered by modern industrial society in a strongly patriarchal nation and ideally ending in New York where in 1957 he created a reportage on behalf of Magnum.

After her marriage to the writer Arthur Miller, met in 1960 on the set of the film Misfits where Marylin Moore starred, at the time linked to Miller, in 1962 Morath moved in fact in an old and isolated farm in Roxbury, about a two-hour drive from New York. A country place far from the frenzy of the city, where he raised his two children Rebecca and Daniel.