Static Live Magazine February 2019

All photos coutesy University of Arizona
Photo Archives
combat photographic unit in World War II, a group
that pumped out some astonishing war pictures for
Life magazine. The beginning of Miller’s professional
career brought him to the front lines, but after
the war, he went on to photograph Hiroshima and
Pearl Harbor in heroic visions.
After the war, Miller went back to his old school
stomping grounds and began documented the
South Side of Chicago and its blues scene, not just
the music, but the life, both rich and poor, resulting
in a classic hardback book, which is still in print.
over 4 million copies. Now some of Millers pictures
are selling for $2000 each for original prints.
He never stopped shooting and taking assignments
and did work for magazines such as Newsweek,
National Geographic, and Smithsonian until he got
too old to focus the camera.
I learned a lot from him.
In the early 1960s, and again working with Edward
Steichen, Miller helped produce The famed Family
of Man project: a photographic book based on the
Museum of Modern Art exhibit which ran for almost
a decade. The exhibit — which sought to show the
similarities between people from all over the world
— was seen by over 9 million people at MOMA between
1955 and 1962, and the resulting book sold
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