Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller (23 April 1907 - 21 July 1977) was an American
photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York State in 1907, she was a
successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to
Paris to become a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second
World War, she became an acclaimed war correspondent and
photojournalist.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Miller had separated from
Bey and was living in Hampstead, London when the bombing of that city
began. Ignoring pleas from friends and family that she should return
to the US, Miller embarked on a new career in photojournalism as the
official photographer for Vogue documenting the Blitz and was
accredited to the U.S. Army as a war correspondent for Condé Nast
Publications from 1944. She teamed up with David E. Scherman, a Life
Magazine correspondent on many assignments. Miller travelled to France
less than a month after D-Day and recorded the first use of napalm at
the battle of St. Malo, the liberation of Paris, the battle for
Alsace, and the horror of the Nazi concentration camps when the
victims were liberated. A photograph by Scherman of Miller in the
bathtub of Adolf Hitler's house in Munich is particularly well-known.
During this time, Miller photographed a child in a Vienna Hospital who was suffering after receiving black market pharmaceuticals. Author Graham Greene was influenced by this photo when he wrote the screenplay "The Third Man".
Copyright; Lee Miller Archive.
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LukeMorfitt 15 months ago | reply
This image was recently shown in a copy of www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/ Does any one know were i can get a printed copy?
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