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In early 1945, American war correspondent Lee Miller had already covered the war from so many angles: women’s work on the British home front; the Allied invasion of Western Europe; and the liberation of Paris. Her final reports from the European theater would feature some of the most iconic images from World War II.
Looking at these photographs together, one is clear that not many artists of her generation saw with more piercing or perceptive eyes than Lee Miller. The visions captured in her imagery, especially her pictures of the war, haunted her for the rest of her life.
In August 1944, Miller accompanied Allied forces during their advance through north-west France. Her photographs from this period capture key elements of the country's occupation and liberation. The woman in this photograph was accused of collaborating with the Germans.
One of America’s only female war correspondents captured the war through women’s service. Top Photo: Lee Miller. David E. Scherman © Courtesy Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk. Lee Miller was a true renaissance woman. In her 70 years, she lived many lives in many countries practicing many professions.
Lee Miller kept Adolf Hitler’s address in her pocket for years. When the legendary photojournalist finally arrived at the Nazi dictator’s secret Munich apartment on April 30, 1945, while ...
Penrose and David Scherman collaborated on the book Lee Miller's War: Photographer and Correspondent With the Allies in Europe 1944–45, in 1992. Interviews with Penrose form the core of the 1995 documentary Lee Miller: Through the Mirror, made with Scherman and writer-director Sylvain Roumette. [55]
Witnessing many of the major events of the Second World War, Lee was billeted in both Hitler and Eva Braun’s houses in Munich, and photographed Hitler’s house, Wachenfeld at Berchtesgaden, in flames on the eve of Germany’s surrender.
As a war correspondent, Miller saw—and expertly shot—the realities of World War II, from the horrors of Nazi concentration camps to the Liberation of Paris. Many of her photos look at the war from the perspective of women.
A new exhibit presents the incredible work of Lee Miller, the Vogue model turned W.W.II correspondent who was famously photographed in Hitler’s bathtub
Lee Miller, who captured some of the most harrowing photographs of World War II, started as a model and Surrealist photographer. Learn about her life and legacy that has inspired a major motion picture.