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Inge Morath

Victoria Sackville-West, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, 1961

Description

Maker

  • Inge Morath, 1923-2002, American

Title

Victoria Sackville-West, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent

Year

1961

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silver print,
  • silver gelatin print

Dimensions

27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 inches) (sheet)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and titled in pencil on verso of sheet.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of Inge Morath Miller

Object Number

76.173.7

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Facing Artists

February 27 - July 31, 2009

Inge Morath began her career in 1953, serving first as an assistant to Henri Cartier-Bresson at Magnum Photos, the famed photojournalism agency. Morath chose
her portrait subjects based on her admiration for or curiosity about them. Her description of a sitting with The Honorable Victoria Sackville-West (English, 1862–
1936) evokes her respect:

[She] received me in her role as grand lady gardener on the grounds of her home. . . . The severity of her clothing was immediately countered by her transparent eyes and the passionate courtesy with which she took me around the famous gardens she had created within the walls of Sissinghurst. . . . There was a feeling of strength in this beauty. It emanated from her person, Vita Sackville-West of Knole, flamboyant friend of Violet Trefusius and Virginia Woolf, author of many books,
from garden poems to her great biography of Joan of Arc, to The Edwardians, to the best selling novel All Passions Spent.

(Inge Morath, Portraits. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1986, pp. 91–92.)

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