Wayne Miller

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Storefront.

Wayne Miller was born in 1918 in Chicago, before perusing his career in photography he studied banking at the University of Illinois and worked part-time as a photographer. Miller also studied photography at the Art Centre School of Los Angeles in 1941, and in 1946 he won two consecutive Guggenheim Fellowship awards. In his later life, Miller taught photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, then in 1949 moved to Orinda and worked for Life Magazine. He became a member of Magnum Photos in 1958, and was named as its president from 1962 to 1966, throughout this period he inspired to ‘photograph mankind and explain man to man’. After he retired from professional photography in 1975 he spent his time working to protect California’s forests. Prior to this, Miller co-authored ‘A Baby’s First Year’ with Dr Benjamin Spock and published his own book ‘The World is Young’. I am going to take inspiration from the way Wayne Miller works as he effectively takes images of the natural world in a fascinating way, this is what I am going to do for my ‘Sense of Place’ project. However, to make this unique to me I will photograph places of meaning to me which reflect my sense of place.

Copyright – Wayne Miller @ Magnum Photos.

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