Lee Miller: The Supermodel Surrealist (Part 1)

How did Lee Miller transform herself from Jazz Age beauty to Surrealist photographer in 1930s Paris? And what lay behind her extraordinary capacity for reinvention? Join Alastair and James as they tell the first part of the remarkable story of the American model, artist, photojournalist and celebrity chef Lee Miller.

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Artworks in this episode:

Lee Miller and David E. Scherman, Lee Miller in Hitler's Bathtub, 1945

Lee Miller, Charlie Chaplin with Chandelier, 1932

Lee Miller, Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery), c.1930

Man Ray, Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed), 1964 (replica of 1923 original), The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Lee Miller, Joseph Cornell, c.1933

Lee Miller, From the Top of the Great Pyramid, 1938

Lee Miller, Portrait of Space, Al Bulyaweb, near Siwa, Egypt, 1937

Lee Miller, Eileen Agar, 1937

Lee Miller, Picnic, Mougins (Nusch and Paul Eluard, Roland Penrose, Man Ray and Ady Fidelin), 1937