Inge Morath

The Road to Reno
Publisher's Description
Inge Morath’s first trip across the United States followed a red grease-pencil
line drawn by her traveling companion, Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1960 the
two drove from New York through Gettysburg, Memphis, and Albuquerque
to Reno. They were among 18 photojournalists commissioned by Magnum to
document the Nevada set of Arthur Miller’s The Misfits. The destination was
momentous for Morath—she took remarkable photographs, and later married
Miller after his divorce from Marilyn Monroe—but it is the trip, the 18 days
she spent traveling, as documented in both photographs and journal entries,
(“written each night at the table in a motel room that was always in a different
place but always looked the same”), that in its casualness can unfold
for readers her carefully observed, insightful, and compassionate approach
to reportage. Traveling westward, Morath combines a foreigner’s awe of alien
terrain with the curiosity of small-town life, offering glimpses into rather than
encapsulations of her experience at each stop. This is the first publication
of her work to include her writing alongside her photographs, and it includes
an afterword by Arthur Miller.
ISBN: 3865212034
Publisher: Steidl
Hardcover : 144 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.8 x 11.1 x 0.8 inches
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Publisher: Steidl
Hardcover : 144 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.8 x 11.1 x 0.8 inches