When things were going well, the model and muse turned wartime and fashion photographer was wonderful company, says her son. She could be monstrous too.
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.Lee Miller Archives England 2023. All Rights Reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk, winning renown as a portrait and fashion photographer. She then decamped to live in Egypt, turning her lens on the desert, then became one of WWII’s few frontline female photojournalists.
Penrose, born in 1947, was Miller’s sole child. His father, Englishman Sir Roland Penrose, was an artist, biographer and proselytiser for the Surrealist movement in Britain. He was Miller’s second husband, but there were tough times ahead, with Miller drinking to what her son calls a “destructive level”.
“She was supposed to be taking photographs, and she decided she didn’t want to, so she turned her camera and all the kit and everything over to me and said, ‘Here you go’. She didn’t direct me, but she was always there to answer the question as to how to make things work and how to get the shot … we had this really good connection for the couple of weeks that we were there.
Man Ray’s ‘Solarised Portrait of Lee Miller’ on show at the National Portrait Gallery in London in February 2013.“She was never good at self-advertisement,” says her son. “It was easy for others to take credit for her work, if that’s what they wanted to do. It was almost like it didn’t bother her. What was important to her was that she knew what she had done, and those close to her knew what she had done.
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