Tag: photography
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‘Lee Miller was the bravest person I ever knew’: The photographer who captured the horror of WW2
The unflinching, surreal gaze of the US artist and war photographer Lee Miller bore witness to both beauty and brutality. Now she is the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Britain. Lee Miller’s vision spirits us across place and time. At Tate Britain’s newly opened retrospective of Miller’s work, we see the intense intimacy…
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An artist confronts photos of her father’s past lovers
London-based photographer Caroline Furneaux faced these questions after sifting through boxes of her father’s 35mm slides in the years following his sudden death in his 70s. She’d had a complex relationship with him, and felt as if his death in 2011 left things unresolved, she explained in a phone call. She let the archive sit for some…