In the spotlight at the Musée de la Liberation in Paris in the exhibition "Women photographers of war", Lee Miller is also telling his story this summer on France Culture.
From July 25 to 29, La Grande Traversée looks back on the career of the Vogue photographer who, after starting out as a model, muse and assistant to Man Ray, worked with her friends Cocteau, Eluard and Picasso before becoming a war correspondent at the within the US military.
The five episodes of this fascinating saga obviously return to his most memorable shots, from the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau to this iconic image immortalizing him in the bathtub of Hitler's Munich apartment, the day of the dictator's suicide.
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But more than the professional, it is also the woman and the mother who are revealed in the program.
His son, Antony Penrose, sheds new light on this pioneer who died in 1977. Today director of the Lee Miller collection and author of the book
The Lives of Lee Miller
, he confesses that he has not really penetrated the mystery of his mother only after her disappearance, and thanks to the archives.
We will also discover more about the legend of photography thanks to the exhibition that the Espace Van Gogh, in Arles, is devoting to him from July 4 to September 25.
Finally, on the big screen, Kate Winslet will play this illustrious figure in a biopic where Marion Cotillard will play Solange d'Ayen, the director of French Vogue and friend of the artist.
“The great crossing” on France Culture, from July 25 to 29, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Available in early July on
franceculture.fr
and the France radio app
"The Lives of Lee Miller" by Antony Penrose. Ed Thames&Hudson, 224 p.
Lee Miller, professional photographer (1932 - 1945), Espace Van Gogh, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, 4 July - 25 September.