A picture and its story: The death of Regina Lisso

During the last days of the war in 1945, many Germans took their lives. The Lisso family in Leipzig, whose bodies are photographed by the American journalist Lee Miller, comes close to her model. Takes the young woman's eye closely. The covered head and the bright skin in the cool light. The blond hair strand, as fine as if it were moved by the breathing air. The arm that she has placed protectively over her coat as if cold. Lee Miller, correspo…