Witty, playful, and effortlessly chic,
Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France and the United States in the postwar decades. The book follows the photojournalist Inge Morath (1923-2002) through intimate sessions with Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn; scenes of window shopping on Fifth Avenue; American girls discovering Paris; the frenetic splendour of society balls; and working women-from actresses to seamstresses to writers-everywhere taking their place in the world. The photographs in On Style focus on an extraordinary period of Morath's creativity, from the early 1950s to mid-1960s, with a coda of work from later years. Here is the fundamental humanism, joy and an unerring eye for life's brilliant theatricality that characterised her work and made her one of the most celebrated photographers of her time.
About the AuthorJustine Picardie is the author most recently of the critically acclaimed biography
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life (2010) and editor of
Harper's Bazaar UK. John P. Jacob is the McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Book InformationISBN 9781419722349
Author John JacobFormat Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint AbramsPublisher Abrams
Weight(grams) 2170g
Dimensions(mm) 311mm * 261mm * 31mm