Lee Miller started out as a model, but she quickly switched to the other side of the lens and took up photography. When she moved to Paris in 1929, she met Man Ray and became his lover and protégé. The pair worked on joint photo projects, together reviving the solarization technique, and Miller became a part of the Surrealist milieu. When the affair ended in 1932, Miller traveled back to New York, where she met the Egyptian businessman Aziz Eloui Bey. They married and moved to his native Cairo, and there she photographed desert landscapes and ancient relics. With the 1930s heading toward war, Miller headed to London. In 1939, she herself went to war as a photojournalist, work that led to Normandy and then to the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. Featuring 140 photographs, this exhibition showcases the breadth of Miller’s multifaceted oeuvre. —Elena Clavarino
The Arts Intel Report
Lee Miller: A Photographer Between War and Glamor
Lee Miller, Fire masks, 1941.
When
June 10 – Sept 24, 2023
Where
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Photo: © Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex, England