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TRAINED TO SEE: THREE WOMEN AND THE WAR – Review by Nadine Whitney

June 8, 2023September 4, 2023 Nadine Whitney documentaries, Katarina Cvitic, Lee Miller, Luzia Schmid, Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn, swiss films, war photography, WWII

Some of the most poignant images and reporting from the frontlines of war come from women war correspondents. Women created some of iconic photographs from WWII; from the triumphantly patriotic to the weary angst of soldiers dying in leagues on the front lines, to the sorrowful and horrifying pictures of concentration camps and the victims of the Holocaust. Swiss director Luzia Schmid concentrates on three remarkable women — Lee Miller, Martha Gellhorn, and Margaret Bourke-White — who battled not only sexist bureaucracy and the notion that women were too feeble to be allowed access to battles (unless as nurses) to create some of the most important reporting and visual records of the period. Trained to See is a brilliant visual and narrated document that brings the perspective of ground-breaking professional woman to the fore.

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Luzia Schmid on TRAINED TO SEE, Women Photographers and War – Nadine Whitney interviews

June 8, 2023June 11, 2023 Nadine Whitney documentaries, Katarina Cvitic, Lee Miller, Luzia Schmid, Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn, swiss films, war photography, WWII

Luzia Schmid is a seasoned reporter, director, documentarian, and teacher based in Switzerland. Her previous work includes Lost in Libera and Groundspeed. Schmid’s Trained to See: Three Women and the War is a brilliant and timely documentary focusing on Lee Miller, Martha Gellhorn, and Margaret Bourke-White, three trailblazing women photojournalists whose reporting from the front lines of WWII created a new form of war journalism.