Photographer, model, muse, Surrealist, war correspondent: Elizabeth “Lee” Miller (1907–1977) is one of the twentieth century’s most versatile artists. The extensive exhibition in the Bucerius Kunst Forum dedicated to her photographic œuvre gathers around 150 photographs from the period between 1929 and 1951 and sheds light on the different phases in Miller’s biography and how they influenced her photographic approach.
Initially employed as a model at Vogue, Miller moved behind the camera in the 1930s. She met the photographer Man Ray in Paris and worked with him on joint photo projects and experiments with the solarisation technique. Miller relished flouting conventions both privately and professionally and followed her own unique path as an artist, portrait photographer and war reporter. Still unforgotten today are the photographs she took of the liberated concentration camps, in which she impressively documented the horror and madness of the last days of the Second World War.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.
