Lee Miller's War
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Presented by Antony Penrose (UK)
Lee Miller is thought to have been he only woman combat photographer with the Allied infantry in Europe during the Second World War. This lecture presents her war photojournalism from shortly after D Day in Normandy, through the Siege of St Malo, the liberation of Paris, fighting across Germany, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, to the flames leaping from Hitler's Berghof near Berchtesgaden that signaled the end of the war, and then the post-war trauma of Austria and Hungary. The story is told through extensive use of Lee Miller's own words, set to her photographs.
Antony Penrose is a British photographer. The son of Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, Penrose is the director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his parents' former home, Farley Farm House.
Lee Miller is thought to have been he only woman combat photographer with the Allied infantry in Europe during the Second World War. This lecture presents her war photojournalism from shortly after D Day in Normandy, through the Siege of St Malo, the liberation of Paris, fighting across Germany, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, to the flames leaping from Hitler's Berghof near Berchtesgaden that signaled the end of the war, and then the post-war trauma of Austria and Hungary. The story is told through extensive use of Lee Miller's own words, set to her photographs.
Antony Penrose is a British photographer. The son of Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, Penrose is the director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his parents' former home, Farley Farm House.