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Lee Miller, Women with Fire Masks, London, Courtesy Lee Miller Archives, © Lee Miller Archives
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July 1, 2008 – Sep 14, 2008
Mondays–Tuesdays (10am–5:45pm)
Thursdays (10am–9:45pm)
Fridays (10am–5:45pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10am–7:45pm)
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$12.50
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Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless WWII photojournalist on the German front lines. Fellow photographer John Phillips characterized Miller as "an American free spirit wrapped in the body of a Greek goddess." You could also add "consummate documentarian" to that description. From her early, surrealist-influenced photographs to her images of the gritty faces of Buchenwald, Dachau, and Paris, Miller always imbued her work with a striking formalism and a restless, investigatory spirit.
