Art

Heart of Darkness

THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF LEE MILLER

Eve Tushnet

Photographer Lee Miller’s life was both charmed and haunted. She began as a model and muse before becoming an artist in her own right. She worked for fashion magazines, acted in Jean Cocteau’s film The Blood of a Poet, and then found herself photographing the death camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. After the Second World War she retired into obscurity, taking little care of h (...)


 

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