A shaven-headed Frenchwoman accused of consorting with German soldiers, Rennes, France, 1944.
This past weekend saw the first screening of photographer Lee Miller’s biopic featuring Kate Winslet as the eponymous character.
With Lee due for general release imminently after it was announced back in 2015, a new book is also being released that looks back on the life and work of the storied photojournalist.
Gypsies in Romania, 1938.Jean Cocteau, Paris, France, 1944.An opera singer performing in the ruins of Vienna Opera House, Austria, 1945.Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Army operate a searchlight battery in a small village in England, which at times put them at great risk. After this picture had been taken, raiders came over and raked the battery with machine fire.
American-born Miller became a model in New York City in the 1920s after a chance encounter with Conde Nast. Miller later trained in photography in Paris and was in London when the Second World War began.
Miller documented the Blitz bombing of the U.K. capital and covered the war for Vogue magazine — entering Europe in the final year of World War II where she witnessed Nazi war crimes.
Eileen Agar at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1937. When Picasso saw this photo, he told Agar she looked pregnant, when Agar told him it was her camera. He replied: “Exactly, you are pregnant with a camera.”Female war correspondents were not allowed near the frontline. But Miller broke that rule and shot this single boot with discarded ammunition next to it following the Siege of Saint-Malo in France.Nusch Éluard, France, 1937.Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White, 8th Bomber Command, Northamptonshire, 1942.Parachute packer, Somerset, England, 1941.Miller’s documentation of the Blitz in London, 1941.Leonora Carrington, St Martin d’Ardèche, France, 1939.A man’s shoes and tar, 1930.A surrealist opera, 1934.A feature about back exercises for Vogue magazine, 1942.
The new book collects Miller’s most famous documentary, fashion, and war works, as well as photographs of Miller, all carefully compiled by her son and photographer Antony Penrose, with a foreword by Kate Winslet.
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