Source
Wayne F. Miller, Photographer Who Chronicled Life, Dies at 94
Citation
Fox, Margalit. “Wayne F. Miller, Photographer Who Chronicled Life, Dies at 94.” The New York Times, May 2013. Obituary.
Relevance
Named-author obituary of record for Wayne F. Miller (1918–2013), Magnum photographer, Steichen’s curatorial assistant on The Family of Man, and contributor of at least six plates to the exhibition (#22, #29, #42, #43, #44, #47 in the Master Checklist). Source for the biographical dates in pher-wayne-miller.
Key excerpts / pages
- Birth: September 19, 1918, Chicago, Illinois.
- Death: May 22, 2013, Orinda, California.
- Career summary confirms his co-curatorial role on The Family of Man alongside Edward Steichen and his later presidency of Magnum Photos (1962–1966).
Notes
- Companion reference: Miller’s own Chicago’s South Side, 1946–1948 (University of California Press, 2000), and Magnum’s photographer page (magnumphotos.com/photographer/wayne-miller).
- Perspective: journalistic / biographical.
- Re-verification 2026-04-24 (issue #9): NYT archive 403/paywalled; Wayback not attempted for this specific URL in this round. Correction against prior claim: an earlier draft of this note cited the MoMA Exh-0569 press release (
sources/1950s/moma-1955-press-release-book.md) and the MoMA Master Checklist (sources/1950s/moma-exh-0569-master-checklist.md) as attestation of Miller’s curatorial-assistant role on The Family of Man. Direct inspection of those two in-repo source files shows that the press release does NOT name Wayne Miller at all, and the checklist records him only as photographer of plates #22, #29, #42, #43, #44, #47 — not as curatorial staff. Miller’s curatorial role is asserted in the secondary literature (Sandeen 1995, Steichen’s 1963 autobiography) but was not re-fetched in this round. Flaggedverified: falsepending Chrome-session verification.