Lee, pictured here in October 1932, travelling across the Atlantic to Paris, was soon accepted by the Allied troops she met thanks to her quickthinking and ability to improvise
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Model. Surrealist. Photographer. World War II correspondent. Lee Miller’s life reads like a masterclass in living several different lives in one lifetime. “She was the nearest thing I knew to a mid-20th century Renaissance woman,” said fellow World War II photojournalist David E Scherman. Perhaps her most remarkable work is from her time as a World War II photojournalist and correspondent, documenting women’s war effort in Britain, the Siege of St Malo, the Alsace Campaign and the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps.