Lee Miller Surrealist Photography Retrospective Opens in Turin

CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin inaugurates its autumn season and celebrates its tenth anniversary with the major retrospective 'Lee Miller. Works 1930-1955'. Curated by Walter Guadagnini, the exhibition brings together over 160 photographs from the Lee Miller Archives, tracing the career of the American-born artist who worked as a model, Surrealist photographer, and war correspondent. The show runs until February 1, 2026. It opens with portraits and self-portraits that highlight Miller's dual role as subject and object of her own gaze, including a famous portrait by Roland Penrose. The exhibition explores her Surrealist experimentation, such as solarization developed with Man Ray, and her documentation of London during the Blitz, notably the image of a Broadwood piano amid rubble. Later sections address her photographs of concentration camps and Nazi officers' suicides, including the staged image of the Lisso family. Guadagnini notes that Miller never seeks emphasis or pathos; her images present death as the extreme point where the absurd manifests.