Lee Miller
From the website: Lee Miller (1907 - 1977) is one of the most remarkable female icons of the 20th century - an individual admired as much for her free-spirit, creativity and intelligence as for her classical beauty. Charting her transformation from muse to ground-breaking artist, this centenary exhibition provides a unique exploration of her life and unprecedented career as a photographer.
The surreal goddess
From the website: Yet it would be a better, less prissy experience if it were more ready to acknowledge that Miller's body was what made her central to modern art in the age of Picasso, Cocteau and Man Ray. As it is, it begins with that superb Man Ray portrait and ends with a painting by Picasso - because how can you avoid the fact she was one of the most avidly looked at women of the 20th century?
The look of the moment by Ali Smith
From the website: But then Miller as artist is something we nearly didn't get the chance to consider at all. This is partly because, in her later years, she disparaged her own art, acted like it didn't exist, tidied what survived into the loft in Farley Farm, Sussex, the art-filled home she shared with her husband (and clearly her soul mate), the surrealist artist and collector Roland Penrose. That she was one of the finest photographic artists of the 20th century was just one of the discoveries her son made when he opened up some boxes in the attic and found original prints, negatives in their thousands, and several official-censor-shredded manuscripts.
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