Lee MIller : Illuminations

    I found this reading about Lee Miller's time in the military fascinating considering she went from being a model to an extremely different career as a photographer for the military. I believe we discussed in class how Lee Miller was able to photograph such gruesome scenes because she used the camera as a shield to separate her from the action. After reading this passage it is obvious that she was very close to the live action of the war. The way she talks about the war it almost seems that she was a solider. Being a women in this position must have felt out of place to some degree. At one point the soldiers asked her to grab bottle of wine for them and the way she talked about this it seemed like she constantly was asked to do tasks like this from soldiers. Having had such a traumatic childhood I feel like it would be hard to be around mostly men all the time. Most of the reading however, was of battle tactics and live action. It seemed more like a war movie then about photography in the context of a war. Ultimately I feel her photography was so successful because she didn't take the events that happened in the war personally and just focused on creating excellent photography.