LEE MILLERS WAR

Lee Millerâ s work for Vogue from 1941â 1945 sets her apart as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as outstanding and its full range is shown here accompanied by her brilliant despatches Starting with her first report from a field hospital soon after D Day the despatches and nearly 160 photographs show war ravaged cities buildings and landscapes but above all they portray the war resilient people â soldiers leaders medics evacuees prisoners of war the wounded the villains and the heroes There is the raw edge of combat portrayed at the siege of St Malo and in the bitterly fought Alsace campaign and the disbelief and outrage Miller describes on witnessing the victims of Dachau The warâ s horror is relieved by the spirit of post liberation Paris where she inudulged in frivoluous fashions and recorded memorable conversations with Picasso Cocteau Eluard Aragon and Colette The book ends with Millerâ s first on the scene report giving a sardonic description of HItlerâ s abandoned house in Munich and the looting and burning of his alpine fortress at Berchtesgaden which marked a symbolic end to the war David E Scherman the renowned war photojournalist wh