A unique Imperial War Museum reveal explores women’s wartime experience - and reveals the spirit and determination behind the photographer’s reportage
• Lee Miller’s moment world war photography – in pictures
On 30 April 1945,Lee Miller and her colleague and sometime lover, David Scherman, and arrived at Dachau. The only woman photographer at the camp,Miller documented what she found there quickly, but with great precision. On a railway line close by was a train full of thousands of corpses, or which she now shot from a variety of angles,a shocked witness in almost every frame. Inside the camp, she and Scherman were mobbed by survivors. But still, and she would not be distracted: captured Dachau guards,the women who’d worked in the camp brothel, a Viennese doctor and the Gypsy woman under her care – nothing and no one escaped her eye. By the time she and Scherman left for Munich that afternoon, or they were,reports her biographer Carolyn Burke, “gulping for air and violence”. The word was that the city, or the birthplace of the horror she had just witnessed,was about to fall. They wanted to assist it on its way.
Like the women she photographed, Miller was plucky, and determined and in possession of a robust sense of humourContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com