She was a muse to the artist Man Ray, who mentored her in photography. She was a photojournalist during W.W. II, and near its end was stationed in Adolf Hitler’s house. She was a contributor to Vogue who took portraits of artists such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. No, this isn’t the plot of a bad-ass spy movie but the life of the photographer Lee Miller. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1907, Miller rose to fame as a model, decided to work behind the camera, and famously captured the aftermath of D-Day, the discovery of the Dachau concentration camp, and the harsh realities of postwar Europe. Later, she moved into Surrealism, embracing her “feel for the incongruities of daily life,” according to her biographer Carolyn Burke. Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with Tate Britain and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the exhibition brings together roughly 250 vintage and modern prints, some of which have never before been exhibited. —Alexandra Lemer