The extraordinary life of photographer Lee Miller in 100 pictures
When things were going well, the model and muse turned wartime and fashion photographer was wonderful company, says her son. Unsurprisingly, considering what she witnessed, she could be monstrous too.
When Antony Penrose first set out to write about his mother, he called his book The Lives of Lee Miller.
The title was not an overstatement. Lee Miller, born in New York State in 1907, was a Vogue cover model in the United States, then a Surrealist photographer in Paris, where she mixed with some of the world’s most famous artists. Picasso painted her six times, and she was a muse, lover and artistic collaborator of Man Ray’s.
