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[fross]

This photo taken by David Sherman and later traveled around the world - Lee Miller, bathing in Hitler's private bath.
Lee Miller was a student of Man Ray and

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say that it was Lee Miller "invented" the famous solarization. Man Ray in principle did not take students, but when it came to Lee Miller, announced that it will be his apprentice, she could not refuse - just like during the war, it did not dare to argue either soldiers or generals, and she received access anywhere, for example, in the former apartment of Hitler.
At the beginning of the war Lee Miller refused to obey orders to evacuate and remained in London to chronicle the war-time as a freelance photojournalist. In the future, has been accredited correspondent of the U.S. Army, she filmed the landing of the Allies, the use of napalm during the siege of Saint-Malo, the liberation of Paris, and then - the liberation of the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau. When these terrible pictures lay on the table editor, accompanied by a telegram from the photographer: "I beg you to believe me: it's true».

About her life recently been many publications, but from the stories of her life I could write a novel and not one.

[Meister]

read a small segment of the life of the Miller fross and decided to find the story of her life ... http://klio06.by.ru/west_0035.html
read in one breath ... here is another example of doubt a very talented man with a difficult childhood, and no less crazy life ...

[fross]

Сообщение от LCR

With regard to Peterhof, just yesterday I had a friend, he works in the Hermitage ...

And you could not find him? Several times I took a solo tour at the Hermitage, and everything would be fine if it had not - as I put it mildly - some religious exaltation. And guides are different every time. That I am so lucky, or in fact among the staff of the Hermitage is selective perception?

[Кирилл Сызранский]

fross, I'm sorry, you wrote "solo tour." I understand you correctly: you are in St. Petersburg with a guide went on GE? So?

[fross]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

fross, I'm sorry, you wrote "solo tour." I understand you correctly: you are in St. Petersburg with a guide went on GE? So?

So. It saves time.

[LCR]

Сообщение от fross

And you could not find him? Several times I took a solo tour at the Hermitage, and everything would be fine if it had not - as I put it mildly - some religious exaltation. And guides are different every time. That I am so lucky, or in fact among the staff of the Hermitage is a selective perceptions?

So, immediately, to know this is difficult - it took away from the Pompidou Center rvbotu, lent by the Hermitage the exhibition, and went home. But if I ask, moreover, that the most interesting - I did not know.

But in general, led excursions - this infernal work (I'm not talking about the individual in our Frosinkoy, for them the guide should have more and pay extra). Please believe it - she used to take, though not for long.

For instance, this story happened to my girlfriend, who worked in Soviet times in the Tretyakov Gallery (the most difficult place because of the abundance of art lovers and line method of work).

After the 4th or 5th tour, in utter exhaustion, she leaves the room IMZ Ivanova (which, as we know, became famous for his biblical subjects), GDA, she finally said farewell to svoimmi tourists, and suddenly I heard: "Be so kind "
She hopelessly stops.
Now we must make a digression: long before this came out a movie about PI Tchaikovsky, where one of the main characters was, naturally, Madame von Meck, chief patron of the great composer. Since then, the "Portrait von Beck and her daughter, another great Russian creator began to enjoy increasing success with the inexperienced, but seeking to increase their cultural baggage of visitors, who in his naivete successfully confused the two ladies with the name of German origin.

There followed a question: "Tell me, Beck and his daughter ..." - Zamyamlila questioning.
But Tanya is not expected to continue - her legs ached, his head ached. so she snapped: "First of all, not with his daughter, and son, and secondly, do not run, and the flight into Egypt, and ran into the smoking