From Vogue Cover to Hitler's Bathtub: The Secret Life of Lee Miller

Lee Miller was on the cover of American Vogue in March 1927, as a drawing by the illustrator Georges Lepape. Eighteen years later she was photographing the liberation of Dachau for the same magazine, and cabling her editor in capital letters to beg her to believe it. In between she ran British Vogue's studio through the Blitz, shooting fashion under clothes rationing, and talked her way into a siege in Brittany she was not accredited to cover. This episode covers the Conde Nast discovery story that the Tate's own curators say has no documents behind it, the 1928 Kotex advertisement, the solarisation years with Man Ray, her work in Egypt, the wartime fashion photography she made for her editor Audrey Withers, the Paris Liberation assignment that sent her straight to the couture houses, and the sixty thousand negatives her family found in the attic after she died. Content note: this episode mentions child S.A., photographs her father took of her that biographers find uncomfortable, depression and heavy drinking, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. The camp photographs are not described in detail. ------------- Find our Podcast on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music or where ever you listen to your podcasts. ------------- Watch our other videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM3OqLHVo6eGkl86dsCJlWdQg9UNuNoWm https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM3OqLHVo6eH5hSfUOdjVzGLZxfJOKbeG -------------- 💬 Which fashion icon should we explore next? Let m