War: 1940-45

Lee Miller moved to London in 1939 to live with Roland Penrose. She trained her Surrealist eye on the chaos of Blitzed London for her first book, 'Grim Glory' (1940). She started working for British 'Vogue' in 1940 and became the magazine's 'work-horse' and most prolific contributor. Miller took on every kind of photographic assignment for the magazine, whether documentary, portraiture or fashion. She began writing feature articles in 1944 with a profile of the American radio broadcasting star Ed Murrow. The 'Life' photographer David E. Scherman became her mentor in photojournalism, her lover and friend. Soon she was flying to France as an accredited war correspondent for 'Vogue'. The magazine published Miller's searing despatches on field hospitals in Normandy, the Liberation of Paris, the fighting around the German-occupied citadel in St Malo, the death camps of Dachau and Buchenwald, and finally the banality of Hitler's apartment in Munich.