Lee Miller played an important role in 20th century photography. As a surrealist
avant-garde artist, as well as a fashion and war photographer, she ceaselessly pushed the borders of photography. A constant feature of her art is her surrealist eye; a way of looking at the absurd in the everyday and discovering the unexpected in the expected.
Parallel to Lee Miller's images is her captivating life story. She was an American supermodel from New York who moved to Paris where she, in the 1930s, established herself in the innermost circles of avant-garde art. She became the famous muse of the surrealists, celebrated and portrayed for her beauty. However, Lee Miller the model turned the camera and her gaze on the world and transformed herself into a portrait and fashion photographer. In the process she developed her own surrealist imagery, not least during her long stays in Egypt. As war correspondent for American Vogue in the 1940s, Lee Miller depicted the madness of the Second World War at the front. Controversial images that touch humankind and function as invaluable historical documents.

The exhibition is produced by Mjellby Konstmuseum in collaboration with Lee Miller Archives, England. Lee Miller- and the surrealist eye will also be shown at the Stenersen Museum, Oslo in 2010.