Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathtub, 1945. Photograph by David Scherman.

When Lee Met Dave

From the front lines to Hitler’s bathtub, Lee Miller and my father, Dave Scherman, made one of the great photojournalistic duos

By Tony Scherman

One afternoon in the spring of 2003, while researching a biography of Andy Warhol, I interviewed the art director turned filmmaker Robert Benton. Affectionately recalling a friend from his Esquire years, a photographer’s stylist named Betsy Scherman, he paused.

“A relative of yours?”