Lee Miller (1907-1977) had many lives: she was a model, muse,
photographer, war correspondent and Surrealist chef. It is well known that
she was 'discovered' on the street at nineteen and that her face appeared
on the cover of Vogue a few months later, that she inspired numerous
famous illustrators, photographers and artists, and that she flouted
convention by picking up a camera and making a name for herself with
seductive fashion photos, Surrealist experiments and penetrating war
reports. Through this publication, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
reveals the less-well-known fact that, during her lifetime, Miller's
impressive oeuvre was mainly accessible in magazines. Curator Saskia van
Kampen-Prein traces Miller's life and work through the pages of popular
lifestyle magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and avant-garde
Surrealist periodicals. Through these magazines, Miller helped to shape
the modern world and was her whole life 'in print'.