LEE MILLER'S WAR

Lee Miller is thought to have been the only woman combat photographer with the Allied infantry in Europe during the Second World War. This lecture presents her war photojournalism from shortly after D-Day in Normandy, through the Siege of St Malo, the liberation of Paris, fighting across Germany, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, to the flames leaping from Hitler’s Berghof near Berchtesgaden that signalled the end of the war, and then the post-war traumas of Austria and Hungary. The story is told through extensive use of Lee Miller’s own words, set to her photographs.

The photo used in Humanitix comes from the Lee Miller Archives and is subject to copyright @leemiller.co.uk

For the past 45 years, Antony has conserved and disseminated the work of his parents, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. With his daughter Ami, he is the co-director of The Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection at Farley Farm House in Sussex and has seen his parents' work featured in major exhibitions at the V&A, National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial war Museum London, Manchester Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Whitworth.  He has lectured at museums and universities around the world and made documentaries for television. Publications include The Lives of Lee Miller, Lee Miller's War (editor), The Angel and the Fiend, The Home of the Surrealists, Roland Penrose the Friendly Surrealist and The Boy Who Bit Picasso. The movie titled ‘LEE’ starring Kate Winslet is based on his book The Lives of Lee Miller and for ten years he was heavily involved with its production and release.