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[PossumCorner]

11.30pm there is a good night owls' photography doco on ABC TV just now, photographer 1930s-50s, b&w of course.

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Incredible photographer, she was fashion photographer for Vogue Magazine. Then documented the blitz in London for Churchhill. Then went with the USA Army through Europe as a war correspondent. Beautiful photography, concentrated on line and composition not just PJ and content. She was among the first batch to liberate Hitler's concentration camps. She continued documenting there when the "tough American soldiers" couldn't go on doing it and were all outside vomiting. (This fits with the thread of scepticism of the Moon Landing which mentioned disbelief in the holocaust. If anyone has any doubts, google Lee Miller, she was there and saw it and recorded it, recorded survivor stories on the day of what had been done).

Miller married after the war, boxed up all her photographs and negatives in an attic, and stopped doing photography. The photographs and negatives were just recently re-discovered by her middle-aged son (who she had not raised) and he had been unaware of her history with Henri Cartier-Bresson and of her being a war-time press photographer. Bit of a shock to the system for him. If the Lee Miller story is shown again, more than worth watching.

Edited July 27, 2009 by PossumCorner