She began her career after she decided to give up modeling and get behind the lens of a camera herself. The famous surrealist painter, Man Ray, was one of her first teachers. After a tumultuous relationship with the artist, Miller became a war correspondent for Vogue in Europe during World War II. She is perhaps most famous for a photograph of her bathing in Adolph Hitler’s bathtub in Munich, Germany in 1945. Although she is most recognized for a photograph that she didn’t take, Miller was the only female combat photographer in Europe during the Second World War. She documented the liberation of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps and giving the rest of the world a glimpse into the perverse horrors that took place in these camps. After the end of the war, Miller continued to work for Vogue, but her most memorable work was produced during her time on the battlefield.