Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathtub, Munich, Germany, 1945
Miller’s friend David Scherman took this photograph (she took a similar one of him at the same time, but for obvious reasons, this is the better known), and it’s very carefully staged, from the picture of Hitler on the tub to the slightly kitschy statue on the right, to the boots on the bathmat beside the tub. These are the boots Miller had worn to visit the concentration camp at Dachau earlier that day, and the dirt on the bathmat is dirt from Dachau.
Photograph: David E Scherman/Lee Miller with David E. Scherma. All rights reserved.
XXAzeritsXx on January 21st, 2022 at 13:33 UTC »
I too keep a photo of myself next to the tub
Spartan2470 on January 21st, 2022 at 15:05 UTC »
Here is the uncropped version in the original black and white. Here is a less cropped color version. Credit to the colorizer, Richard James Malloy.
Here provides the following context:
Yiztobias on January 21st, 2022 at 16:22 UTC »
I swear that it my grandmothers bathroom. Same color tile, same sink, same picture of Hitler.