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feel like I had vaguely heard of World War II photographer Lee Miller before Lee, but only as hazy background noise. (She was namechecked in Civil War earlier this year.) Why isn’t she better known? She should be so ubiquitous in the legend, nay, what is now the fable of the war that she’d become downright cliché. She was on the ground for the liberation of Paris. She produced some of the very first photographic images of liberated German concentration camps, while emaciated prisoners were still milling around, perhaps in shock of their sudden rescue, and as the dawning of the full Nazi horrors were beginning to hit Allied forces. She was responsible for a series of photographs taken in Hitler’s actual residence, just after his suicide, that… well, not to spoil for anyone not already aware of them (I wasn’t!), but they were a huge fuck-you middle-finger to der Führer, and to notions of Nazi superiority.
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