Wayne F. Miller | 1918 - 2013

A victim of the atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima, in a makeshift hospital in a bank building. Miller made some of the very first photos in Hiroshima after the bombing. (Wayne Miller, Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

May 26, 2013 10:35 AM PT

Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, has died. He was 94.

Veteran aircrewmen put on flight gear for a strike against Manila, November 1944. Sober faces show that they know what they are up against. (Wayne F. Miller, George Eastman House / Getty Images)

Lawernce Britton (SN2) on duty at prow lookout aboard USS Nassau, October 1943. (Wayne F. Miller, George Eastman House / Getty Images)

A woman and her squatter’s shack, built of cardboard and plywood, on Lake Michigan’s beach on a cold winter day in 1948. (Wayne Miller / Associated Press)

This photo by American photographer Wayne F. Miller provided by his family shows an image from a collection titled “Chicago’s South Side: 1946-1948.” (Wayne Miller / Associated Press)

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Wayne F. Miller | 1918 - 2013

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