Amazing photographs and the people who took them

Published: June 16, 2023, 11:30 p.m.

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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week\\u2019s Witness History stories.

We focus on some of the world\\u2019s best known photographs - and the photographers who took them.

We find out why Lee Miller was in Hitler\\u2019s bath in the dying days of World War Two; and historian Dr Pippa Oldfield discusses the women who were the pioneers of war photography.

Also, Sir Don McCullin tells the story behind one of his most famous images of the Vietnam War.

Plus, more on the party pictures that shone a light on an unseen Africa and how the biggest names in jazz came together for one immortal portrait.

Finally, the first African American woman to have her photographs snapped up by New York\\u2019s Museum of Modern Art.

Contributors:\\nAntony Penrose, Lee Miller's son and biographer\\nSir Don McCullin, photographer\\nDr Pippa Oldfield, photo-historian \\nManthia Diawara, filmmaker\\nJonathan Kane, son of photographer Art Kane\\nMing Smith, photographer

(Photo: Grace Jones. Studio 54, New York, 1970s. Credit: Ming Smith)

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