Episode
Lee Miller: Why Her Photography Still Matters Today - Antony Penrose
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- Gresham College Lectures
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- Mar 13, 2026
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- 3384
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Summary
What is it that makes an image stick in our memory against our will? People find many of Lee Miller’s combat photographs have this indelible quality, and of these the most powerful are from her witness of the Holocaust. Her stark and harrowing evidence takes us back to one of the most terrible episodes of persecution in the whole grim history of man’s inhumanity to man. In this lecture Miller’s son Antony Penrose talks about why his mother responded to the Holocaust in the way she did, and t...