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American amateur photographer Martin H. Miller is known for his everyday documentary black-and-white photographs. Towards the end of the 1960s, as a member of the Photographic Society of America (PSA), he was named one of the 50 most frequently exhibited amateurs worldwide.¹ Miller's nude photographs are characterized by the use of special light and shadow patterns that create elegant stripes on the models' skin. This technique emphasizes the body's contours and gives the images a visual artistic dimension that conveys both surreal abstraction and sensuality. It is not without reason that his nude photographs can also be seen as a survey of the body, similar to contour lines on maps. His greatest interest was cartography, to which he devoted himself intensively after retiring as a tax officer.
(Christoph Fuchs)

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Adam Bernstein, “Martin H. Miller, 88; Official in Treasury,” Washington Post, July 13, 2005