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As the only known female combat photographer with the Allied Infantry in Europe during the Second World War, Lee Miller documented the horrors of concentration camps alongside picturesque German villages, and of course *that* bathtub.This lecture presents her war photojournalism from shortly after D Day in Normandy, through the Siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris. It includes fighting across Germany, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau to the flames leaping from Hitler’s Berghof near Berchtesgaden that signalled the end of the war. Her pictures of the post war traumas of Austria and Hungary bring us to the sobering conclusion.
Presenting this lecture is her son, Antony Penrose who, for the past 45 years, has conserved and disseminated the work of his parents, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. With his daughter Ami, he is the co-director of The Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection at Farley Farm House in Sussex and has seen his parents’ work featured in major exhibitions at the V&A, National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum London, Manchester Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Whitworth.
Join us after the lecture for light refreshments and to further discuss with Antony his mother’s famous works.
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