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LEE MILLER PAPER

Posted on December 3, 2025 by katharina guenther

Lee Miller‘s war photographs are extraordinary. Do they – sometimes – represent a somewhat “curated reality”? I presented a paper on this topic at the International Festival of Photographic Images‘ symposium FACT/FAKE – Bild. Gesellschaft. Zukunft (20 to 23 November … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER LECTURES

Posted on February 24, 2025 by katharina guenther

Join me for two lectures on Lee Miller: In the one at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne on 18 March, I will be discussing her war photography oscillating between documentation and art. The second one on 9 March at the Centre … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER BLOG POST

Posted on April 15, 2024 by katharina guenther

Last Thursday, 11 April, marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. I wrote a little something on Lee Miller‘s photographs of the first funeral procession to mark this day. You can read it on Klassik … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER IN KLASSISCH MODERN

Posted on March 28, 2024 by katharina guenther

Very proud to have contributed to the latest issue of klassisch modern, the annual magazine of Klassik Stiftung Weimar, with fantastic texts by Peter Neumann, Anna Stiede and Nancy Hünger, amongst others. I wrote, once more, about Lee Miller‘s Buchenwald … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER RUNDBRIEF FOTOGRAFIE

Posted on December 14, 2023 by katharina guenther

New publication: Lee Miller is currently omnipresent, and rightly so, but it’s time for new approaches to her work. Read my extensive review of the show Lee Miller. Fotografin zwischen Krieg und Glamour at Bucerius Kunst Forum in the December … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER IN THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE

Posted on May 2, 2023 by katharina guenther

In April 1945 Lee Miller‘s unique artistic gaze led her to create singular photographs of the just liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. Read my research on hitherto undiscussed images from this context in the May issue of The Burlington Magazine (May … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER LECTURE AT BUCHENWALD

Posted on August 22, 2021 by katharina guenther

As part of the international MWW-Summer School 2021 ‘Collection Spaces – Räume des Sammelns’, I will be presenting the lecture ‘‘Das Goethehaus ist ziemlich mitgenommen‘ – Lee Millers Blick auf Buchenwald und Weimar’ at the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER REVIEW

Posted on March 15, 2021 by katharina guenther

My first publication ever in German, “Das Unglaubliche Glauben”, is a review of the Lee Miller exhibition Lee Miller: To believe it! I saw in Erfurt last year. You can read it in Foto Marburg’s current Rundbrief Fotografie.

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