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Press release - Olivia Arthur, Lurdes R. Basolí, Kathryn Cook, Jessica Dimmock, Claudia Guadarrama, Claire Martin, Emily Schi er, Ami Vitale and Inge Morath

Exhibition period: February 25th – May 28th, 2017
Press tour: Friday, February 24th, 12 noon
Opening: Friday, February 24th, 7 pm

How many ways can one photograph a European river and what can such pictures convey? With the exhibition DANUBE REVISITED. THE INGE MORATH TRUCK PROJECT, the Fotogra e Forum Frankfurt presents documentary photography from women photographers.

Frankfurt, 24.02.2017 – Nine women, eight countries, one river: The Fotogra e Forum Frankfurt presents DANUBE REVISITED. THE INGE MORATH TRUCK PROJECT, a photographic road trip through Europe. At the same time it celebrates the role of women in contemporary documentary photography. This exhibition produced by Fundación Telefónica, shows over 100 works from the international photographers Olivia Arthur (GB), Lurdes R. Basolí (E), Kathryn Cook (USA/CH), Jessica Dimmock (USA), Claudia Guadarrama (MEX), Claire Martin (AUS), Emily Schi er (USA) and Ami Vitale (USA). All of these are winners of the Inge Morath Award, a prize annually awarded by the Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation for promising young female photo- graphers. Additionally, original photographs from Inge Morath (1923–2002) are shown, on loan from Fotohof Salzburg.

Hungary 21 july 2014, Cemetery of boats in Pilismarot from the series »Entre lo sólido y lo efímero«, 2014
© Claudia Guadarrama
 

This Austrian born photographer is seen as a pioneer of photo journalism. In 1951, she began her career as a photographer, from 1953 to 1954 she worked as an assistant to Henri Cartier-Bresson and in 1955 she was the rst woman to become a member of Magnum Photos. She traveled through- out the world to numerous countries for her photo documentaries, books and assignments – and always again on the Danube. In 1958, she undertook her rst photographic expedition along the river that was complicated due to conditions of the Iron Curtain. Also later, long after she had been living in the USA with her husband, the US writer Arthur Miller, she was drawn again and again photographi- cally to 'her' Danube. In the beginning of the 1990s, there emerged during various trips at the invitation of the gallery Fotohof Salzburg, unique photographs of the river and life along its shores; also in the former Eastern bloc countries. During all this time, Morath was motivated by the question: “How many ways can one photograph water and what can such pictures convey?” Her answer: “A river is more than water; a river has a history written on its banks by generations of people who, in effect, have left us their stories there.”

Decades later, the eight young awarded photographers whose works are now presented in Frankfurt followed Morath’s longings for such river stories. Their plan: a trip together as an hommage to Inge Morath – the great trailblazer – to revisit the Danube, and to make new photo-stories. After thousands of emails, hours of online conversations and a crowd funding campaign, DANUBE REVISITED. THE INGE MORATH TRUCK PROJECT came into existence. The four co-founders of the project were Olivia Arthur, Lurdes R. Basolí, Claire Martin and Emily Schiffer.