A new exhibition opening at North Vancouver's Polygon Gallery is set to showcase the legacy of one of the 20th century's most iconic photographers, Lee Miller.

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North Vancouver's Polygon Gallery is hosting an exhibition dedicated to Lee Miller, a prominent 20th-century photographer known for her work as a war correspondent for British Vogue during World War II. The exhibition traces Miller's journey from fashion modelling to documenting significant wartime events, including the liberation of concentration camps and the aftermath of combat.

Miller's granddaughter, Amy Bouhassen, highlights the importance of Miller's under-recognized fashion photography and her powerful images from the front lines. The exhibition also explores Miller's personal experiences, such as her time under house arrest for covering combat and her documentation of women accused of collaboration in France.

Renowned WWII photographer Lee Miller featured in Vancouver gallery

A new exhibition opening this week at North Vancouver's Polygon Gallery is set to showcase the legacy of one of the 20th century's most iconic photographers. This arguably the photo that thrust American photographer Lee Miller into fame. She's pictured here taking a bath in Hitler's Munich apartment, washing off mud from a concentration camp in Germany. There she captured images of liberated World War II prisoners working as a war correspondent for British Vogue. She found herself in a French town as it unexpectedly became the front line of the war. Those photographs and so many others in the exhibition show the arc of her early career from fashion modelling to chronicling the Holocaust. After the war, Lee Miller returned to regular life and had a family and grandchildren. Earlier today, I spoke with Miller's granddaughter, Amy Bouhassen, about what her grandmother's photographs mean to her. I think this particular picture is really important because up until Gaëlle Morel has curated this exhibition, very little had been done at looking at Lee's fashion photography, particularly during the Second World War. Most people when they think Lee Miller, they think her in Hitler's bathtub or maybe of her one of her surrealist images that she took in Egypt. But actually, when you think of her war work, the first four years she was running British Vogue's photography studio for them, and she was their main fashion photographer. And in the archives, we have nearly 6,000 images of her British fashion. And what's wonderful about this show as well is the way that it shows her working process. So you can see the like the red square around the picture. That's her kind of showing how she wants it to be cropped, how it wants to be used. So you can see her thought process. You see one where your grandmother is, I believe, at a concentration camp. Yes, that's the it's really quite chilling. Those are the gates for Dachau prison camp. And it's, I think it's, I'm not very good at pronunciation, but it says, Jürgen Das Zein. She visited four prison camps, Dachau was, she was there at the liberation, Buchenwald was the one just before. And the things that she saw there were things that were never going to leave her and would stay in her head for the rest of her life and affected her really profoundly. David Sherman and John Phillips, who are Life magazine photographers, they said, you know, she was kind of gripped by this anger. It was almost like she felt she had to record what was going on to make sure that everybody knew what had happened. It's quite, it's a weird picture because it looks like it's just a crowd of people. But when you look at it really closely, it's, there's so many, there's so many things going on in this. The context of the images is that she just finished covering her first ever combat battle and she'd been put under house arrest because women weren't supposed to do that. So they punished her for it. But she said it gave her time to write up her notes. And then when she's released, she's in the race to go to Paris for the liberation of Paris. And on her way, she stops off in Rennes. And it's there that she witnessed these women who you can see in the picture that their heads have been shaved. And they're teenage girls. And they have, without any trial, been accused, they're French ladies, and they've been accused of collaborating with the Nazis. And without very little proof and without any trial, they've had their heads shaved and then marched down the street to be humiliated. Whereas men who had question marks over their heads as to whether they'd collaborated, the same thing didn't happen to them.

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