The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris is presenting a retrospective dedicated to photographer Lee Miller until August 2nd, organized in collaboration with Tate Britain. The exhibition traces the career of an artist who went from the fashion catwalks to the battlefields of the Second World War, through approximately 250 vintage and modern prints.
From a 1920s model to a war correspondent
According to Paris Musées, the exhibition explores the unique career path of Lee Miller, who began as a model before becoming a fashion photographer and then an accredited correspondent during World War II. This dual life, between Parisian studios and European conflict zones, forms the central thread of a retrospective that underscores the rarity of such a career in the history of 20th-century photography.
Discovered as a model in Paris in the late 1920s, Lee Miller went on to become a student and then a collaborator of photographer Man Ray, before developing her own artistic practice. Accredited as a war correspondent during World War II, she notably documented the liberation of several concentration camps, images which are among the most striking photographic testimonies of this period.
A program available until the end of the summer
The museum remains open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 18 p.m., with a late opening on Thursday until 21:30 p.m. This exhibition comes at a particularly busy summer for Parisian institutions, which are multiplying photographic and pictorial retrospectives as the cultural season approaches.
Co-organized with Tate Britain, the exhibition brings together prints from British and French collections, tracing the photographer's entire career up to her final years. It is part of a packed summer program at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, which this summer is presenting numerous retrospectives dedicated to major figures in 20th-century photography.
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