Photography exhibition - Lee Miller's War July 6, 2007

Lee Miller's War comes to Monash Gallery of Art from the Lee Miller Archives in England and presents 110 photographs by one of the world's most influential and remarkable photographers.

Lee Miller's War presents works created during 1944-45 when Miller visited hospitals in Normandy and travelled through Germany, France, Austria, Hungary and Romania, as an official war correspondent for Vogue . Her unflinching documentation and commentary of what she witnessed shocked and educated the world to the horrors and futility of war.

These photographs were first published in Vogue in 1945-46 and represent a unique achievement in fashion publishing that has rarely been seen since. The uncompromising images by Miller were published under Alex Kroll's editorial vision. The strong content combined with striking magazine layouts produced a Surrealistic vision of what many saw as a confounded and irrational war.

Anthony Penrose says of Miller's photographs in Lee Miller's War 1944-45 , “They show war ravaged cities, buildings and landscapes, but above all they portray war-resilient people – soldiers, leaders, medics, evacuees, prisoners of war, the villains and heroes.”


Lee Miller
David E. Scherman, dressed for war, London, 1942
© Lee Miller Archives, England 2007
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