Lee Miller

Lee Miller
USA
1907–1977
Practice: Model; War correspondent; Photography
Movement/Style: Surrealism, Photojournalism, Documentary

Lee Miller was an American artist who refused to be defined by her gender, beauty or age. Miller was a high-end fashion model, muse to several of the great Surrealists, a photographer, actor and one of the only female war correspondents to be credentialed during WWII, with Miller’s reportage and images, including a powerfully emotive series of photographs from the WWII death camps, published in American Vogue.

Lee Miller, Inmates of the German KZ Buchenwald, 1945

Lee Miller, Portrait of Space, 1937

Keywords

American, Artist, Gender, Beauty, Age, Artistic practice, Model, Muse, Surrealism, Photographer, Actor, War correspondents, World War II, Independent, Bohemian, Society, Traditional, Gender roles, Innovative, Landscapes, Strange, Pre-war Paris, Film, Picasso, Man Ray, Lee Miller Archive

Bibliography

Miller, L 1945, Inmates of the German KZ Buchenwald, photograph, viewed 4 April 2020, <https://www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/482/elizabeth-lee-miller>

Miller, L 1937, Portrait of Space, photograph, viewed 22 March 2020, <https://www.theartstory.org/artist/miller-lee/artworks/>

NSU Art Museum 2015, The Indestructible Lee Miller, viewed 4 April 2020, <https://nsuartmuseum.org/exhibition/the-indestructible-lee-miller/> 

The Art Story n.d., Lee Miller, viewed 18 March 2020, <https://www.theartstory.org/artist/miller-lee/>