Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who helped revolutionize
documentary photography and lead the movement to renew
California’s forests, died today, May 22, 2013 at age 94. Mr.
Miller, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1918, began his career over
the Pacific, shooting photographs of the Pacific combat theater
during World War II, having been hand selected by Capt. Edward
Steichen for his elite naval combat photographic unit that
documented the war effort. One of Mr. Miller’s most recognized
photographs from the war shows a wounded pilot being pulled from
his fighter plane. By tragic coincidence, Mr. Miller had been
scheduled for the flight and the photographer who had taken his
place was shot and killed while documenting the firefight. While
Mr. Miller’s war photography documented soldiers both at ease
and in combat, tragedy dominated. Mr. Miller was one of the
first to arrive at Hiroshima to document the devastation left by
the atomic blast. Mr. Miller throughout his life kept a piece of
the rubble, a Japanese teacup