Issue #26 / Happy / Inge Morath

The creation of the Mask series, with collaborator Saul Steinberg, marks a singular moment in Morath's career. Personally, the series was made at the time of her relocation to the US from Europe, when she married and started a family with playwright Arthur Miller. It was her first self-consciously artistic statement, and it is the only large body of images in a fifty-year long career in photojournalism that is conceptually motivated.