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The History Hour: Amazing photographs and the people who took them

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17/06/2023 GMT

Amazing photographs and the people who took them

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Amazing photographs and the people who took them

Focusing on Lee Miller in Hitler's bath, a shell-shocked US marine and an unseen Africa

We hear why Lee Miller was in Hitler's bath, shine a light on an unseen Africa and find out how the biggest names in jazz came together for one immortal portrait.

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History stories. 

We focus on some of the world’s best known photographs - and the photographers who took them. 

We find out why Lee Miller was in Hitler’s bath in the dying days of World War Two; and historian Dr Pippa Oldfield discusses the women who were the pioneers of war photography.

Also, Sir Don McCullin tells the story behind one of his most famous images of the Vietnam War.

Plus, more on the party pictures that shone a light on an unseen Africa and how the biggest names in jazz came together for one immortal portrait.

Finally, the first African American woman to have her photographs snapped up by New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Contributors:
Antony Penrose, Lee Miller's son and biographer
Sir Don McCullin, photographer
Dr Pippa Oldfield, photo-historian 
Manthia Diawara, filmmaker
Jonathan Kane, son of photographer Art Kane
Ming Smith, photographer

(Photo: Grace Jones. Studio 54, New York, 1970s. Credit: Ming Smith)

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