Lee Miller

Lee Miller's life still straightens my spine. She began as a New York fashion model in the 1920s, then walked into the frame from the other side and reinvented herself in Paris as a serious photographer. What moves me is the nerve of that pivot, refusing to stay merely beautiful. Then came the harder turn: front-line war correspondent and combat photographer in the Second World War, carrying both an eye for elegance and the will to stare directly at horror. Nearly fifty years after her death, her images still ask whether I would have her courage. I doubt I would.

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Name (English)

Lee Miller

Name (Japanese)

リー・ミラー

Reading

りー・みらー

Born

April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977

Origin

Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

Occupation

war correspondent / war photographer / photojournalist / model / journalist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Goat

• Official sitehttps://www.leemiller.co.uk/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Miller
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q265131

Tags

• New York
• war correspondent
• war photographer
• photojournalist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.