The photographer Elizabeth “Lee” Miller was tough. She was born in 1907 in Poughkeepsie, was raped at seven, and was kicked out of almost every school she attended. All the while she modeled for her father, an amateur photographer. In 1929, she met Man Ray in Paris and became his lover, muse, and student, as well as one of the Surrealists. It wasn’t until she left him, in 1932, that she became a a portraitist in her own right, ran her own studio, and shot for fashion brands, fragrances, and cosmetics. When the U.S. entered W.W. II, Miller traveled to the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald, where she recorded the most horrifying of human catastrophes. This exhibition examines Miller’s most intense and productive artistic period—the years 1932 to the end of the war. —Elena Clavarino