Behind The Lens, These Women Created Photographs That Leap Over Decades
Two current museum exhibitions — The Woman Who Broke Boundaries at the Dali Museum and The New Woman Behind the Camera at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — celebrate women photographers.
by Susan Stamberg
Jul 25, 2021
3 minutes
Would you buy a headband from this woman? Lee Miller took the picture for a fashion article. A pretty woman could sell lots of headbands to avid photo magazine readers. And Lee Miller (1907-1977) was certainly pretty.
A model, photographer, muse and lover to surrealist Man Ray, lover (maybe muse, too) to many more men than Man, photojournalist, accredited war correspondent for Lee appears, in profile with headband, in two current museum exhibitions: at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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