The Lee Miller Archives – have sent details of and exhibition they are running at their on site gallery called ‘Lee & LEE,’ which will pair some of Lee Miller’s most iconic photographs with their counterparts from the highly anticipated feature film ‘LEE’, which dramatises her life becoming a WWII correspondent for Vogue.
The exhibition opened on 1st August ahead of the film’s release by Sky in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 13th September.
They say: ‘We are delighted to bring this selection of unseen stills and behind-the-scenes documentation to Farleys House and Gallery, the former home of Lee Miller. It was at Farleys where Lee learnt to live with her harrowing experiences as a photo-journalist during the Second World War. To this day, the house remains the base of the Lee Miller Archives, frequently visited by the film team – from the writers to costume and set designers, and of course title role and executive producer Kate Winslet – it is fitting that LEE’s story has come full-circle. The exhibition will showcase comparative images of Lee Miller’s wartime reportage alongside photographs by Kimberley French (official photographer for LEE) of meticulously researched scenes recreated for the film. Additionally, it will feature photographs by Kate Winslet taken on set whilst filming using a Rolleiflex camera that was carefully researched and compared with Lee Miller’s own camera here at Farleys.’
• Lee tells the story of Lee Miller (Winslet), American photographer. Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee captured some of the most important images of World War II, but they came at an enormous personal price.