Towards the end of her lifetime Lee Millers photography wasnt fully appreciated. But her formerChiddingly home has been keeping her name alive.
Lee Miller had a life of two halves. The first centred on modelling and a photographic career that embraced the glamour of New York and Paris and travel to exotic lands, as well as the tension and horrors of World War II. The second, spent in Sussex, saw her descent into heavy drinking and depression. By the time of her death in 1977, at Farley Farm in Chiddingly, she was a largely forgotten figure, her name eclipsed by the greats she had associated with, such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Man Ray, with whom she had an affair not long after her arrival in Paris from her native United States in 1929.
In recent years, interest in her remarkable life has revived thanks to exhibitions, books and documentaries asserting her artistic creativity, along with her contribution to wartime photojournalism. Lee was one of only four accredited American female war correspondents, and the only female photographer to take pictures of the Normandy landings in 1944. She witnessed the liberation of Paris, and the misery of the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. In Munich in the spring of 1945, she was even photographed impudently soaping up in Hitler’s bath tub. Interest has extended to her domestic life in Sussex. The publication of A Life With Food, Friends and Recipes, brings together the recipes she made into an art form in her later years at Farley Farm when the inspiration to take photographs had faded.
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