{"id":193,"date":"2014-07-30T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-09-01T17:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T21:57:13","slug":"burden-of-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Burden of Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"10\" bgcolor=\"#000000\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"99CC99\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Once upon a time, there was a Vogue Model. <br \/>She was beautiful. A fashion icon. An exquisite object of desire.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/leeselfport3web.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"387\" height=\"264\" \/><\/div align><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She took artist Man Ray as an early lover. He was a surrealist. <br \/>She became one too. She started taking photographs.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/leemillernudebentweb.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"232\" height=\"270\" \/><\/div align>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/leemillerfloatingheadwb.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"232\" height=\"186\" \/> <\/div align><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She had a particular way of seeing the world.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/leemillerspacewb.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"241\" height=\"292\"\/> <\/div align><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And she knew everyone. She was famous. When the war came, <br \/>she did not watch it from afar.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/lmillerfiremaskswb.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"252\" height=\"265\" \/> <\/div align><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She became a war photographer. A correspondent for Vogue.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/lmillerevachospitalwb.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"252\" height=\"254\" \/> <\/div align><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She followed soldiers, nurses. She was unafraid.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/lmiller30thaprilwb.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"252\" height=\"251\" \/><\/div align><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the war, she found the annihilation of beauty. The image of the human animal capable of any degradation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Victims and victimizers. SS guards.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/lmillerssguardwb.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"252\" height=\"294\" \/><\/div align><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Collaborators.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/lmillerfemcollabwb.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" \/> <\/div align><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It all made its mark. She lost her love of the image. She lost her beauty. <br \/>She aged. There was depression. Alcohol. For the last 25 years of her life, <br \/>she is said to have regarded her photographs with contempt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She seemed to leave much of her old self behind. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Her name was Lee Miller.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She turned to cooking. She became an excellent cook. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is something to consider here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leemiller.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Miller archives<\/a> on the Web display a number of her photographs. <br \/>Several short essays about her work can be found online, including <a href=\"http:\/\/elsa.photo.net\/leemil.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this one.<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, there was a Vogue Model. She was beautiful. A fashion icon. An exquisite object of desire. 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