Editing Lee Miller (section)

==Legacy==
Miller's work has served as inspiration for Gucci's [[Frida Giannini]], [[Ann Demeulemeester]], and [[Alexander McQueen]]. Playwright [[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]] comments, "Today, when the mark of a successful iconographer is to offer craven worship of wealth, or yet more craven worship of power and celebrity, it is impossible to imagine an artist of Lee's subtlety and humanity commanding the resources of a mass-market magazine."<ref name="ErinC" /> [[Mark Haworth-Booth]], curator of ''The Art of Lee Miller'', has said "her photographs shocked people out of their comfort zone" and that "she had a chip of ice in her heart... she got very close to things... [[Margaret Bourke-White]] was far away from the fighting, but Lee was close. That's what makes the difference—Lee was prepared to shock."<ref name="JDGiovanni" />

In 1932, for the ''Poughkeepsie Evening Star'', Miller stated that photography was "perfectly suited to women as a profession... it seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in photography than men... women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have an intuition that helps them understand personalities more quickly than men."<ref name="BEConekin" />

Throughout her life, Miller did very little to promote her photographic work.<ref name="2007-09-08 Guardian" /> That Miller's work is known today is mainly due to the efforts of her son, Antony Penrose, who has been studying, conserving, and promoting his mother's work since the early 1980s. He discovered sixty thousand or so photographs, [[Negative (photography)|negatives]], documents, journals, cameras, love letters, and souvenirs in cardboard boxes and trunks in Farley Farm's attic after his mother's death. He owns the house and offers tours of the works of Miller and Penrose.<ref name="Bukhari" /> The house is home to the private collections of Miller and Penrose, their work, and some of their favourite art pieces. In the dining room, the fireplace was decorated in vivid colours by Penrose.<ref>{{cite web|title=Farleys House and Gallery|url=http://www.leemiller.co.uk/article/Artists/b4OcCNM2-8snMwHxWgoJ5Q..a?cl=b4OcCNM2-8snMwHxWgoJ5Q..a&ts=Ugo-hyympA5mqfpQPjNcCA..a#fh|access-date=March 14, 2017|archive-date=March 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315085344/http://www.leemiller.co.uk/article/Artists/b4OcCNM2-8snMwHxWgoJ5Q..a?cl=b4OcCNM2-8snMwHxWgoJ5Q..a&ts=Ugo-hyympA5mqfpQPjNcCA..a#fh|url-status=live}}</ref> Her pictures are accessible at the ''Lee Miller Archives''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lee Miller Archives|url=http://www.leemiller.co.uk/|access-date=May 9, 2014|archive-date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027001425/http://www.leemiller.co.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:LEE MILLER 1907-1977 Photographer and Sir ROLAND PENROSE 1900-1984 Surrealist lived here.jpg|thumb|Blue Plaque, 21&nbsp;Downshire Hill, Hampstead]]
In 1985, Penrose published the first biography of Miller, entitled ''The Lives of Lee Miller''. Since then, a number of books, mostly accompanying exhibitions of her photographs, have been written by art historians and writers such as Jane Livingstone, [[Richard Calvocoressi]], and Haworth-Booth. Penrose and [[David Scherman]] collaborated on the book ''Lee Miller's War: Photographer and Correspondent With the Allies in Europe 1944–45'', in 1992. Interviews with Penrose form the core of the 1995 documentary ''Lee Miller: Through the Mirror'', made with Scherman and writer-director Sylvain Roumette.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1jrxzu_lee-miller-through-the-mirror-1995_webcam |title=Lee Miller, Through the Mirror (1995) |date=March 26, 2014 |publisher=[[Dailymotion]] |access-date=July 13, 2015 |archive-date=May 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150515181557/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1jrxzu_lee-miller-through-the-mirror-1995_webcam |url-status=live}}</ref> The audiobook ''Surrealism Reviewed'' was published in 2002, and a 1946 radio interview with Miller can be heard on it.<sup>Missing ref.</sup>

A [[blue plaque]] was attached to Miller's and Penrose's residence at 21 [[Downshire Hill]], Hampstead, London.

In 2005, Miller's life story was turned into a musical, ''Six Pictures of Lee Miller'', with music and lyrics by British composer [[Jason Carr]]. It premiered at the [[Chichester Festival Theatre]], [[West Sussex]].<ref>[https://www.jasoncarr.org.uk/leemiller.html ''Six Pictures of Lee Miller''] on Jason Carr's homepage.</ref> Also in 2005, [[Carolyn Burke]]'s substantial biography, ''Lee Miller, A Life'', was published.

In 2007, ''Traces of Lee Miller: Echoes from St. Malo'', an interactive CD and DVD about Miller's war photography in St. Malo, was released with the support of Hand Productions and [[Sussex University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Artists |url=https://www.ltmrecordings.com/surrealism_reviewed_ltmcd2343.html |website=www.ltmrecordings.com |publisher=LTM Recordings |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref>

In 2015, an exhibition of Miller's photographs at the [[Scottish National Portrait Gallery]], ''Lee Miller and Picasso'', focussed "on the relationship between Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and Pablo Picasso".<ref>{{cite web |title=Lee Miller and Picasso |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-coming-soon/lee-miller-and-picasso/ |website=National Galleries Scotland |access-date=May 30, 2015 |archive-date=May 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530015128/https://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-coming-soon/lee-miller-and-picasso/ |url-status=live}}</ref> 

Two works of historical fiction, that build their stories around Miller's life, work, and relationship with Man Ray in Paris circa 1930, were a book written by Dana Gynther titled ''The Woman in the Photograph,''  published in 2015,<ref>{{cite book|last=Gynther|first=Dana|title=The Woman in the Photograph|year=2015|publisher=Gallery Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4767-3195-7}}</ref> and ''The Age of Light'', by Whitney Scharer, released in 2019.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The age of light : a novel|last=Whitney|first=Scharer|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|year=2019|isbn=978-0-316-52408-7|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1083101034}}</ref>

Penrose's 1985 biography of Miller was the basis for the 2023 film by [[Ellen Kuras]], ''[[Lee (2023 film)|Lee]]'', with [[Kate Winslet]] starring as Miller.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/kate-winslet-lee-miller-biopic|title=A New Film about Vogue Model & War Correspondent Lee Miller Will Star Kate Winslet and Marion Cotillard|author1=Hayley Maitland|author2=Radhika Seth|magazine=[[British Vogue]]|date=October 22, 2021|access-date=June 4, 2022}}</ref> Most of the movie shows Miller during World War II, depicting the occasions for some of her most well known pictures from the Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, and including a glimpse into the relationships with main characters in her life, such as her colleague photojournalist [[David Scherman]], British ''Vogue'' editor [[Audrey Withers]], and her husband Roland Penrose.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Zuckerman |first=Esther |date=September 27, 2024 |title=The True Story Behind the War Photographer Biopic Lee |url=https://time.com/7022783/lee-miller-movie-true-story/ |url-status=live |access-date=September 27, 2024 |magazine=Time}}</ref>

In the 2024 film ''[[Civil War (film)|Civil War]]'' by [[Alex Garland]], Miller was referred to as a role model for [[Kirsten Dunst]]'s character, Lee Smith, who is a famed war photographer in much the same way as Miller and has the same first name.<ref>{{cite web |last=Greenberger |first=Alex |title=Famed War Photographer Lee Miller Gets a Surprise Shoutout in New Alex Garland Film 'Civil War' |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/civil-war-lee-miller-war-photography-1234702641/ |website=ARTnews |date=April 12, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024}}</ref>