The fate of Lee Miller at the Rencontres d’Arles, from fashion photography to the fall of the Third Reich

She might have been a cat as she gives the impression of having had several lives. Born in 1907 in Poughkeepsie, New York, Elizabeth “Lee” Miller had an extraordinary destiny that saw her alternately working as a model, becoming Man Ray’s muse in Paris, appearing as a statue in a film by Cocteau (The Blood of a Poet), open a photo studio in New York, marry an Egyptian tycoon and live for three years between Cairo and Alexandria, travel in Europe at the time of the invasion of Poland by the Nazi army and then cover the end of World War II. worldwide for the magazine Vogue. While taking impressive images during the liberation of the Dachau and Buchenwald camps, she signed accounts with high added literary value, where most photojournalists were content to photograph.