Lee Miller's Images of Women in Wartime

Photography by Lee Miller

1. Anna Leska, White Waltham air field, England, 1942

2. He was born on April 23, 1907 in Poughkeepsie in upstate New York. His
parents were Theodor and Florence Miller. His father, of German descent,
was an amateur photographer and often used his daughter as a model for his
photographs, among which are quite naked performed with the stereoscopic
technique; also he taught their children to take pictures since childhood.
At 19 she met Condé Nast, Vogue magazine founder, who began her modeling
career.

3. ATS officers
getting
changed in
Camberley,
Surrey, 1944

5. Credit: Lee Miller

6. An exhausted nurse at the 44th evacuation hospital, Normandy, France, 1944

7. Wartime photography, will run at the IWM London from 15th October to 24th April.

8. Homeless children in Budapest, Hungary, 1946. Miller’s first assignment after the war.

9. A French woman is accused of collaborating with the Germans, Rennes, France, 1944

10. Lee followed the Army on into
Germany. She was a stunning Aryan
beauty, usually smoking a
cigarette,and wearing a hodge
podgeof US Army and civilian
clothes.

11. Credit: Lee Miller

12. Lee Miller in steel helmet specially designed for using a camera, Normandy, France 1944 by unknown photographer PhotographerUnknown

14. Lee Miller's photograph of Wrens preparing depth charges

15. A tired mother and son wait at a crossroads for transport, Luxembourg, 1945

16. The iconic image of
American
photographer Lee
Miller in Adolf
Hitler's bathtub in
Munich. The image
was taken on April
30, 1945, the day
Hitler committed
suicide in Berlin

17. This photo taken at Picasso’ studio, her posing topless at a surrealist picnic. All the images are held at Miller’s final home, Farley Farm in East Sussex, England.

18. Lee Miller 1940

19. Women in fire
masks, Downshire
Hill, Hampstead,
London, 1941

20. In 1944 Lee heard a rumourthat her
beloved Paris was on the verge of
liberation. She headed to the French
capital knowing that she might not be
the 'first woman journalist on the
scene' but she would be the 'first dame
photographer'

21. Lee Miller (right) with art critic Frederick Laws (left) at a theatre performance in 1950.

22. US Service
women at a
fashion salon,
Paris, France,
1944.

23. Credit: Lee Miller

24. Credit: Lee Miller

25. Lee Miller in Uniform, London,
1944. Photograph by David E
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