<With over 15,000 works, including a 600-square-meter mural that tells the history of electricity, this iconic Art Deco-style museum in Paris presents a retrospective dedicated to photographer Lee Miller — Art News
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With over 15,000 works, including a 600-square-meter mural that tells the history of electricity, this iconic Art Deco-style museum in Paris presents a retrospective dedicated to photographer Lee Miller

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is presenting the largest retrospective in France in twenty years dedicated to photographer Lee Miller. The exhibition features nearly 250 prints, including previously unseen works, and traces her multifaceted career from model and Surrealist muse to fashion photographer and war correspondent.

The retrospective elevates Miller's long-underestimated body of work, now recognized as a major part of 20th-century photographic history. It highlights the compelling contrasts in her life and art—between beauty and violence, fashion and war—within the iconic setting of a Parisian Art Deco museum, making it a significant cultural event for rediscovering her legacy.