Miller

From 14 March to 9 June 2019 “Surrealist Lee Miller” at Palazzo Pallavicini.

"Surrealist Lee Miller", the retrospective dedicated to one of the most

important photographers of the twentieth century, comes to Italy for the

first time.

The exhibition consists of 101 images that trace the entire artistic career

of the photographer, through her most famous and iconic shots.

Launched by Condé Nast on the cover of "Vogue" in 1927, Lee Miller

immediately became one of the most popular models in the fashion

industry. Miller started traveling to participate in photo shoots that

became history, until, two years later, she decided to move over the

other side of the camera and become a photographer herself.

Struck by the images of Man Ray, one of the most important Surrealist

photographers, she was able to meet him, and immediately she became

his muse and above all collaborator. Together they developed the

solarization technique.

A friend of Picasso, Ernst, Cocteau, Miró and the entire surrealist clique,

after her time in Paris, Lee Miller decided to return to New York to open

her own studio.

World War II photojournalist accredited with the US Army, Miller was the

first female photographer to document the liberation of Dachau’s and

Buchenwald’s concentration camps. She also followed the Allies during

the discovery of Hitler's apartments in which was taken what probably

became her most famous photograph, Lee in the bathtub of the Führer.