The Art of Lee Miller traces the artist's fascinating metamorphosis from model and muse to commercial photographer and photojournalist. Through Vogue fashion spreads and portraits by Edward Steichen, Pablo Picasso, and Man Ray, the exhibition sets the scene with Miller's glamorous early career, while 140 of her own works reveal her evolution behind the camera, propelled by a colorful personal life and seminal moments in 20th-century art (surrealism) and history (World War II). After apprenticing with Ray in Paris, Miller opened a commercial studio in pre-WWII New York, then spent five years living and making pictures in Egypt. As one of a few female correspondents reporting from the frontlines, Miller produced several remarkable photojournalistic essays, including brutal images of Dachau and Buchenwald following the concentration camps' liberation.

-Laura Richard Janku