Wayne Miller Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1948.
“Wayne Miller making images of African Americans in Chicago in 1948 was not a turning point, but a continuation of his earlier work. Wayne had photographed African Am
(...) erican enlisted men in the Navy assigned to cooking, cleaning and supply depot duties on board the USS Saratoga and on Guam during WWII—and he was drawn to this community on land right after the war. The caption he gave about this image was, “A woman and her squatter’s shack on a cold winter day, 1948. It was built of cardboard and plywood on Lake Michigan’s beach.”
As he said in an interview at his home in Orinda, California, on May 3, 1992, “That’s life itself, to be able to see it and then to share it.”
– Jeanette Miller © Wayne Miller | Magnum Photos
