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Lee Miller was the first war correspondent in the United States Army. This free woman, a true muse and icon, preferred to photograph than to be photographed.
However, she began her career as a model after studying theater. Coming from a wealthy Protestant family, she left the United States to go to Paris and met Man Ray, 17 years her senior.
Their collaboration, at the beginning, has for playground the world of fashion.
Man Ray is so jealous that she leaves him to return to live in New York where she opens her own studio and marries a wealthy Egyptian businessman. She then left for Cairo and photographed the desert.
An adventurer at heart, she nevertheless decided to return to Paris and met the English surrealist painter and poet Roland Penrose.
She marries him and accompanies him to London. The Second World War led her to make new reports and, on this occasion, she discovered the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau. With the end of the conflict and the birth of her son Anthony, she only works intermittently. Following a period of depression, she devoted herself to a quieter life in Sussex.
Lee Miller
Corsetry, Solarised Photographs, Vogue Studio, London, England 1942
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