LEE MILLER THE VOGUE PHOTOGRAPHER WHO WENT TO WAR
AT A GLANCE
Lee Miller, born in 1907, was an American model turned photographer. After working as an apprentice to surrealist photographer Man Ray, she moved to New York, Cairo and then London, where she recorded her experiences of living through the Blitz. After meeting fellow photographer David E Scherman, she was accredited by the US forces as a war correspondent for Vogue, and followed the army across the Normandy beaches and through liberated Europe. Miller rarely spoke about her war experiences in later life, and suffered from PTSD and alcoholism up until her death in 1977.