#war correspondent

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Lee Miller by Man Ray, 1930

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... a portrait of her soul ...

Lee Miller, 1927

📷 Arnold Genthe

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Lee Miller (1907-1977)

Model, war correspondent, photographer, surrealist, Lee Miller, wore many hats. As one of the few widely known female photographers of the first half of the 20th century she has made a valuable contribution to photography. 

In the 1930s, Lee Miller is part of the surrealist circles of Paris. At her studio she creates commercial photos for fashion magazines, sometimes also working in front of the camera. As a former model she understands posing like no one else.  

During and after the Second World War, she documents important moments as a photographer and war correspondent. This is quite a remarkable feat for a woman: such work was typically the exclusive domain of male photographers.  

Lee Miller’s diverse, layered, and often personal corpus of work appears in well-known magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and LIFE Magazine, as well as in avant-gardist artists’ magazines. Her photographs also appear in publications by the allied forces, such as The War Illustrated and Cadran. Her own publication Wrens in Camera is focused on the wartime labour carried out by women for the British Royal Navy.  

Cover image: Model with lightbulb, London, England c.1943 by Lee Miller (F0021) © Lee Miller Archives, England 2025. All rights reserved, www.leemiller.co.uk

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Parental Advisory Warning

So, about this --

Archie wanders the beach, taking pictures of girls, and their boyfriends beat him up. Split apart the "mature theme" out of that yourownself.

Hm. Might be the shape of a thing sneaking over the bottom? It does seem to mean uncomfortable suit, but then I am not the person who will ever be wearing it.

Maybe that cheeky hash tag "war correspondent" brought on the "mature content"? Funny, a swimsuit on the first page struck me as cheeky, but it remained unedited in reprints. Tiny speedos are on muscle bound boys -- I wonder if that would have tripped up the label doubly.

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'Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathtub, Hitler’s apartment' - Munich - 30 avril 1945

Photographie de Lee Miller et David E Scherman

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After the success of his 1895 Civil War novela 'The Red Badge of Courage', novelist and poet Stephen Crane now had the means and recognition to pursue his dream job: war correspondent.

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Lara Logan - Journalist - War Correspondent