Lee Miller resided 12 rue Victor Considérant, Paris 14th. The city of Paris pays homage to her with this commemorative plaque:
“HERE LIVED AND WORKED
LEE MILLER
1907-1977
AMERICAN ARTIST
SURREALIST PHOTOGRAPHER
WAR CORRESPONDENT »
Pictured here are: Antony Penrose son of Lee Miller, his daughter Ami Bouhassane Co-Director of Farleys House and Gallery Ltd, director of the Lee Miller Archives and granddaughter of Lee Miller and Tarik Bouhassane her great-grandson with Laurence Patrice , Deputy Mayor of Paris
Lee Miller (1907-1977), American born in 1907, began her career as a model.
She began her apprenticeship as a photographer with Man Ray in Paris at the end of the 1930s, then opened her own studio before perfecting her skills in New York.
Hired by Vogue, she became an accredited war correspondent with the US Army in 1942 and covered the liberation of Europe and the discovery of concentration camps.
