Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The Extraordinary Lee Miller: From Surreal to Very Real

To help celebrate the 70th anniversary of World War II, we salute the Surrealist model turned war photojournalist


Miller's Crossing 

Lee Miller started out in front of the camera as a model and muse to some of the world's greatest photographers in the '20s. She moved to the other side of the lens soon after and turned into a renowned fashion photographer and portraitist.


Two Soldiers
"She never looked like a fashion model. She always looked like a filthy G.I.," – from the documentary "Lee Miller: Through the Mirror."


Miller captured women shielding their eyes from incendiary bombs in London, England.
One Night of Love

Miller frequently teamed up with "Life's" David E. Scherman for assignments.


Women in Masks 
Miller captured women shielding their eyes from incendiary bombs in London, England.



When WWII broke out in 1942, Miller (second from the right) became a war correspondent for "Vogue" and one of the only female photojournalists to cover the front line in Europe.
Bombed Chapel 

After landing in Normandy a few weeks after D-Day, Miller witnessed some of the most significant events of the war — from the liberation of Paris to the crossing of the Rhine.


Canal Dachau 
"Lee got as close to her subjects as she possibly could," said the doc's director, Sylvain Roumette.


Camp Liberation
The haunted faces of Buchenwald.

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