Photography and the authorities during WWII

This fourth episode is presented by Ami Bouhassane (granddaughter of Lee Miller and Co-Director of her Archives) who in this episode speaks with Hilary Roberts, senior curator of photography at the Imperial War Museums, London.

Hilary Roberts is Research and senior curator of photography at the Imperial War Museums, London where she curated the exhibition 'Lee Miller a Woman's War in 2015. An exhibition that was the result of 4 years of research on Lee Miller's work and exposed many unseen images by Lee of women during WWII. Hilary specialises in war photography and works closely with contemporary photographers covering conflict as well as collections of historic war photography. She has many other publications, broadcasts and exhibitions to her name including 'Don McCullin: Shaped by War' (2010) and 'Cecil Beaton:Theatre of War' (2012).

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Lee Miller’s photography of British fashion for Vogue during World War II was prolific yet few are aware of the full extent of this body of her work. Many know Lee Miller’s name in connection to her inspirational World War 2 reportage. Few are aware of the volume of her British fashion images that were published on British Vogue’s pages from 1939 to 1944.

The six part series is produced in conjunction with the release of Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain book and exhibition and explores British fashion during the war, Lee Miller's contribution to the fashion industry in these years and her significant service to the survival of British Vogue magazine.

Audrey Withers, Lee Miller’s editor at British Vogue, wrote as early as 1941:

‘she [Lee Miller] has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue’s [British Vogue’s] history’.

The series is presented by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller's grandaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives

Guest speakers include: Fashion Historian Amber Butchart, Robin Muir, contributing editor to British Vogue, Hilary Roberts, head curator of photography, Imperial War Museums London, Julie Summers, biographer of Audrey Withers and contemporary fashion, Antony Penrose, son of Lee Miller and fine art photographer Viviane Sassen.

Produced by Tolly Robinson

Music from DeWolf Music

This series was made possible by public funding awarded by Arts Council England from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund

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