Women firewatchers are caught on camera in 1940 by American photographer Lee Miller who was living in Hampstead in London when the bombing of the city began. Ignoring pleas from friends and family to return to the United States, Miller embarked on a new career in photojournalism as the official war photographer for Vogue, documenting the Blitz. Miller was accredited into the US Army as a war correspondent for Condé Nast Publications from December 1942. She teamed up with American photographer David E. Scherman, a LIFE correspondent on many assignments. Miller travelled to France less than a month after D-Day and recorded the first use of napalm at the siege of Saint-Malo, the liberation of Paris, the battle for Alsace, and the horror of the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. One photograph by Scherman of Miller in the bathtub of Adolf Hitlers apartment in Munich is one of the most iconic images from the Miller-Scherman partnership.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 07:08:09 +0000
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