War is Hell – My World of Interiors

Martha Gellhorn: The War Correspondent Who Refused to Be a Footnote

Martha Gellhorn never liked being remembered as Ernest Hemingway’s wife. She was, as she often reminded anyone who asked, “a writer before I met him, and a writer after I left him.” Indeed, over the course of nearly six decades, Gellhorn became one of the 20th century’s most formidable war correspondents—a woman who witnessed theContinue reading “Martha Gellhorn: The War Correspondent Who Refused to Be a Footnote”

Lee Miller at War: The Camera as Witness

When Lee Miller picked up her Rolleiflex and walked into the ruins of Europe, she left behind the world of glossy magazine covers and Surrealist salons. Her photographs of World War II — published in Vogue between 1940 and 1945 — transformed her from a society beauty into one of the most unflinching photojournalists ofContinue reading “Lee Miller at War: The Camera as Witness”