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Tate Britain Opens Largest UK Retrospective of Lee Miller

Curators aim to reposition Miller as an autonomous innovator with authorship over key techniques.

Overview

  • Running 2 October 2025 to 15 February 2026, the survey assembles roughly 230–250 vintage and modern prints alongside previously unseen archival material.
  • The show foregrounds Miller’s creative agency beyond the muse narrative, highlighting reattributions and her pivotal role in developing solarisation in the Man Ray studio.
  • A dedicated room with a content warning presents her concentration-camp photographs from Buchenwald and Dachau due to their distressing nature.
  • The exhibition traces her trajectory from Vogue model to Paris Surrealist collaborator, through work in Cairo and British Vogue, to her accredited war reporting, including the Hitler bathtub image.
  • After London, the exhibition is scheduled to travel to the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris in 2026.