Six Pictures of Lee Miller

Synopsis

Muse, model, surrealist and war photographer, Lee Miller witnessed at first hand the best and worst of the twentieth century. Man Ray was her lover, Picasso her friend, she danced with Chaplin and bathed in Hitler's bath tub. Her work includes Vogue fashion spreads and first images of Dachau. But after the war she put away her camera and devoted herself to married life in Sussex.

Our Review:

8 July 2005

Based on the book The Six Lives of Lee Miller by Lee’s son Antony Penrose, Edward Kemp’s musical version is a kaleidoscope of living pictures, showing this remarkable photographer in each facet of her fascinating and varied life.

It proceeds in chronological order from her turbulent teenage years in Poughkeepsie, New York State, in the early 1920s, to her equally turbulent final years on a farm in East Sussex where she eventually succumbed to cancer in 1977.

The journey of her life takes in New York, Paris, Cairo, London, and a war-torn Europe - as well as numerous lovers, and a husband or two. There is laughter; there is music. But it is the fascinating story of a life lived to the full which kept the audience completely captivated.

The first published photograph of Lee was taken when she was barely out of her teens, for an advert for sanitary protection, which led to her modelling for Vogue. But it wasn’t long before she moved to Paris, became the student an...

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81.86.106.82) - 3 August 2005:

a fascinating evening if a little too long. much as i liked some of the music i kept enjoying the non musical bits best...

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