Wayne Miller

American, 1918– 2013

Birth placeChicago, Illinois, United States

BiographyBorn in Chicago in 1918, Wayne F. Miller studied photography at the Art Center School of Los Angeles before joining the United States Navy in 1942, where he reached the rank of lieutenant. In the two decades following the war, Miller worked as a freelancer for Life, Fortune, Ladies’ Home Journal, Collier’s, and Ebony, received two Guggenheim fellowships, taught photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, assisted Edward Steichen on the historic MoMA exhibit The Family of Man, and served as the president of Magnum Photos.
Operated as a combat photographer under his own orders, answerable only to Captain Edward Steichen, United States Navy

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