{"id":388370,"date":"2026-04-08T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388370\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:32:10","slug":"darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388370\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AThe scrapbook contains a lesser-seen version of Miller in Hitler\u2019s bathtub. | Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford <\/p>\n

A darkroom printer\u2019s scrapbook containing previously unseen photos that belonged to Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton has been unearthed and acquired by the University of Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Libraries. <\/p>\n

Roland Haupt was a photographic assistant to two of Britain\u2019s most iconic photographers and kept a scrapbook of their prints, including a different frame of Miller\u2019s famous portrait showing her bathing in Adolf Hitler\u2019s bathtub in his Munich apartment, the same day the Nazi leader died. <\/p>\n

Both Miller and Beaton worked for Vogue magazine, and Haupt was the darkroom printer in the London office. The album spans from 1943 to 1949, and the photographs reflect that tumultuous time as the Second World War came to an end. <\/p>\n

\"AMiller\u2019s wartime photography in Germany. The photos show Hitler\u2019s sitting room (1), Eva Braun\u2019s house and bed (2 and 3), and Eagle\u2019s Nest in flames (4). \"ACecil Beaton\u2019s photo of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor. <\/p>\n

The prints were made by Haupt in Vogue\u2019s London darkroom. The unprocessed negatives were sent by Miller and Beaton, often from the frontlines in Europe. The book is a working record that documents Haupt\u2019s favorite photos that he was asked to process and print. Haupt kept the album in his personal possession until his death; the album has never been displayed in public before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the story of my favourite photographer Lee Miller \u2014 Vogue war correspondent,\u201d Haupt wrote in the book. \u201cShe followed the American army from the beaches of Normandy, five days after D-Day, up to the final entry into Berlin, and after that she continued her journey visiting countries that had been occupied, having many exciting experiences \u2014 these are a few of the beautiful pictures she sent back.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to a press release, Miller trained Haupt as her assistant in 1940, later charging him with taking over darkroom production while she went away to war as a correspondent. Miller\u2019s life story was recently made into a movie<\/a>, where she was played by Kate Winslet. Miller, a former Vogue model, was one of the first accredited female war reporters. <\/p>\n

\"AA portrait of Miller (top) and a photo of her with Pablo Picasso (bottom). \"ASome macabre images taken by Miller of the end of World War II. <\/p>\n

The album was acquired by the Bodleian Libary through photography dealer Michael Hoppen, who obtained it directly from the Haupt family. He tells The Times of London<\/a> that it was a surprise to him that Miller entrusted such momentous photographs to Haupt. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat relationship was clearly very important,\u201d Hoppen tells the newspaper. \u201cAnd he has clearly been instrumental in showing us how extraordinarily brave this woman was.<\/p>\n

The album captures many other pivotal moments in Miller\u2019s war photography, including the German army\u2019s surrender to the U.S., the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald, and an arresting image of two captured and beaten SS officers. Other images reflect Miller\u2019s strong connection to the contemporary artistic circles of the day: one photograph shows Miller, in her army uniform, in conversation with Pablo Picasso.<\/p>\n

\"TwoCecil Beaton portrait of the then Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret. \"FourPortraits of Beaton. <\/p>\n

Haupt also worked as a photographic assistant to Cecil Beaton, who was stationed in North Africa during the 1940s. Beaton\u2019s photographs from the region, also included in the album, document the stark, surreal beauty of the desert landscapes, in sharp contrast to the harrowing scenes from wartime Europe. <\/p>\n

\"AnBeaton\u2019s photos from Africa. <\/p>\n

Now part of the Bodleian\u2019s collections, the album will undergo conservation and cataloguing before being made available to researchers. In time, the Bodleian plans to explore opportunities for public display and wider access. <\/p>\n

Image credits: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scrapbook contains a lesser-seen version of Miller in Hitler\u2019s bathtub. | Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[10937,307,304,305,306,102273,101056,308,93,61,60,129671,172532,172533,172534,172535,172536,78099,172537],"class_list":{"0":"post-388370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-acquisition","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-cecilbeaton","14":"tag-darkroom","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-leemiller","20":"tag-oxforduniversity","21":"tag-photoalbum","22":"tag-photoarchive","23":"tag-scrapbook","24":"tag-secondworldwar","25":"tag-vogue","26":"tag-worldwar2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}