[The Guardian] The big picture: Inge Morath captures the joy of Spanish dance

The big picture: Inge Morath captures the joy of Spanish dance

A Sevillan dancer’s skirt whirls in this image from the Austrian photographer, who sought moments of lightness after the horrors of war

Inge Morath’s love affair with Spain began as apprentice and assistant to Henri Cartier-Bresson, on assignment to Madrid in 1953. She returned two years later as a photographer with the Magnum agency and, having befriended a Spanish duke, Gonzalo Figueroa, travelled the country with him in a pair of Cadillacs, one for them, and another filled with a library of books from which the duke’s valet would read aloud.

Morath was studying languages at university in Berlin when Hitler’s armies marched across Europe and had been press-ganged into a factory making aircraft parts, alongside prisoners of war. In 1945, aged 22, she walked the 455 miles through ruins to her parents’ home in Salzburg, Austria.

The latest Magnum square print sale, Now, runs online from 9am Eastern Time on 17 October until 23.59pm ET on 24 October and includes more than 120 signed or estate-stamped 6×6in prints, all priced £100/€120/$100+tax. The images will be on public preview at an exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery, London W1 while the sale is live

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