# The Secret Lives of Artists: Lee Miller | Podcast Episode 3

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Model, muse, artist, photojournalist, inventor, mother, chef. Lee Miller had many lives in the 20th century. We are only just now grasping her impact as a photographer in Surrealist Paris in the 1930s and as a photojournalist documenting the toll of war. Miller’s son, Antony Penrose, narrates the discovery of thousands of negatives in the attic that led to a new understanding of her work’s scope, along with MoMA assistant curator Caitlin Ryan and host Naeem Douglas.

This is episode 3 of MoMA’s new podcast "The Secret Lives of Artists," which tells the stories you don’t know about the artists you think you do. Each concise episode explores the secret talents and obsessive pursuits of some of our favorite modern artists. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

0:00 - Opening 1:20 - Theme Music and Introduction 2:10 - Mysterious Miller 5:19 - Lee Miller’s Artistic Beginning 5:43 - Modeling Career 7:30 - Model Turned Photographer 11:09 - Discovering Solarization 12:50 - Lee Miller, War Photographer 16:14 - Miller’s “Secret” Lives Rediscovered 18:34 - Portrait Of Space 20:52 - Closing and credits

Lee Miller in US Army Official Photograph

Host: Naeem Douglas Executive producers: Prudence Peiffer, Alex Halberstadt, Naeem Douglas Writing and research: Prudence Peiffer, Alex Halberstadt, Naeem Douglas with additional research by Caroline Nieto. Engineered and mixed by Zubin Hensler Original score by Pablo Altar Special thanks to The Secret Lives of Artists guests as well as: Jason Persse; Sara Bodinson, Arlette Hernandez; Maude Campbell; Kyla Mathis-Angress; Stina Sawdust; our Marketing colleagues and our AV technicians

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