“Lee Miller’s Camera Became a Weapon of Choice”

For the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Saint-Malo (France), the city is exhibiting the photos of Lee Miller, a fashion icon, a surrealist artist and war reporter who covered the siege of the French city of Saint-Malo (Brittany) as close as possible to the fighting. On the occasion of the film also dedicated to her, Blind met Antony Penrose, the son of Lee Miller and director of his mother’s archives.

A New York model for Vogue, a muse of Man Ray, a Parisian surrealist photographer, a close friend of the great artists of her time, a war reporter: the epic life of Lee Miller (1907-1977) needs no introduction.
The exhibition “Lee Miller, Saint-Malo ...

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