lee miller

'Then as war correspondent for British Vogue, she was the one of very few photojournalists (and the only female one) to advance across Europe with the Allied armies. She reported on field hospitals in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the death camps of Dachau and Buchenwald, and even Hitler’s apartment in Munich - where she treated herself to a bath at possibly the exact moment that the Furer was committing suicide. Sadly, after the war, she photographed and appeared in public very little, spending most of her time at her country farm, reputedly in an alcoholic haze (today we would appropriately attribute this to post traumatic stress disorder). To me she is the most inspiring kind of feminist icon: instead of analyzing the barriers women face, she simply lived as if there were none.' -- posted by Zoe on Shameless.