Tate Britain mounts largest UK retrospective of photographer Lee Miller, featuring 230 works
From 2 October to 15 February 2026, Tate Britain in London is hosting an extensive retrospective of photographer Lee Miller. The exhibition showcases around 230 prints, including many previously unseen works, along with archival materials. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1907, Miller began her career as a model before relocating to Paris in 1929, where she worked with Man Ray. Her diverse portfolio encompasses surrealist art, commercial photography, and war reporting during World War II, where she contributed to British Vogue and documented the Blitz. As one of the few female war correspondents, she captured the liberation of Dachau. The exhibition underscores her travels, portraits, and impact on modern photographers, highlighting her challenge to gender norms in avant-garde photography.
Key facts
- Lee Miller retrospective at Tate Britain runs 2 October – 15 February 2026
- Exhibition features around 230 prints, many never before seen
- Miller born 1907 in Poughkeepsie, New York
- Collaborated with Man Ray in Paris, developed solarisation technique
- One of few accredited female war correspondents in WWII
- Documented Dachau and took photo in Hitler's private bath
- Previous retrospectives at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and Art Institute of Chicago
- Exhibition includes 1950 self-portrait in Oskar Kokoschka's London studio
Entities
Artists
- Lee Miller
- Cecil Beaton
- Edward Steichen
- Man Ray
- Nimet Eloui Bey
- Berenice Abbott
- Charlie Chaplin
- Leonora Carrington
- David E. Scherman
- Zanele Muholi
- Hannah Starkey
- Tina Barney
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Anna Müller
- Jean Cocteau
- Roland Penrose
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Thérèse Bonney
- Dora Maar
- Dorothea Tanning
- Saul Steinberg
- Theodore Miller
- Antony Penrose
- René Magritte
- Paul Delvaux
- Yves Tanguy
- Paul Éluard
- Georges Lepape
- Éli Lotar
- Germaine Krull
- Jacques-André Boiffard
- Florence Henri
- André Kertész
- Nusch Éluard
- Adrienne Fidelin
- Martha Gellhorn
- Helen Kirkpatrick
- Fanny Schulmann
- Ellen Kuras
- Kate Winslet
- Michel Gondry
- Condé Montrose Nast
- George Gershwin
- Fred Astaire
- Audrey Withers
- Ernestine Carter
- Edward R. Murrow
- Regina Lisso
- Elizabeth Cowell
- Digby Morton
- Henri Matisse
- George Hoyningen-Huene
- Arnold Genthe
- Marcel Duchamp
- Grete Stern
- John Miller
- Erik Miller
- Florence MacDonald
- Tanja Ramm
- Alfred de Liagre
- Argylle
- Frank Crowninshield
- Madame Kochashinski
- Picasso
Institutions
- Tate Britain
- Lee Miller Studios Inc.
- British Vogue
- Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Lee Miller Archives
- Aesthetica Magazine
- Man Ray Trust
- Vogue
- Jeu de Paume
- Connaissance des Arts
- London Bulletin
- Julien Levy gallery
- Life
- Lund Humphries
- Scribners
- Vanity Fair
- Condé Nast
- Thames & Hudson
- De Laval Separator Company
- Broadway Theatre
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Bauhaus
- Beaux Arts Magazine
Locations
- London
- United Kingdom
- Poughkeepsie
- New York
- USA
- Paris
- France
- Cairo
- Egypt
- Syria
- Romania
- Siwa
- Al Bulwayeb
- Chicago
- United States
- East Sussex
- England
- Buchenwald
- Dachau
- Germany
- Chiddingly
- Manhattan
- Siwa oasis
- Al-bulwayeb
- Biarritz
- New York City
- Munich
- Normandy
- Bricqueville
- Saint-Malo
- Rennes
- Leipzig
- Berlin
- Farley Farm House
- Sussex
- Île Sainte-Marguerite
- Albany
- Brooklyn
- Poland
- Canada
- Farley Farm
- Downshire Hill
- Al Bulwayed