Five Facets of Photography – Controversy in Photography: Lee Miller

Nazi suicide, Leipzig, Lee Miller, 1945

During the Second World War, Lee Miller was a war correspondent for Vogue covering the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the opening of concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.  She took this picture scene of one of three people lying dead in an abandoned office at the close of the War.  It’s Leipzig, the mayor, his wife, and daughter have killed themselves fearing reprisals from the Allied troops, who stormed the city.  The photograph captures the obscene beauty of composed death. 

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