Becky E. Conekin discusses surrealist photographer Lee Miller’s groundbreaking work in the world of fashion, to mark the launch of her new book Lee Miller in Fashion.

Muse, surrealist, war photographer, Lee Miller was also one of the 20th Century's most important female fashion photographers - yet her work in the field of fashion remains little known.

Dr Becky E. Conekin will redress this balance by exploring Miller’s unprecedented contributions as both model and photographer to the century's leading fashion magazine, Vogue. From the late ‘20s, when her face graced its cover, to the ‘40s and ‘50s when her stunning photographs lit up its pages, Vogue was the primary outlet for Miller's daring creative vision. Only a few short years after she picked up a camera for the first time, Vanity Fair would declare her one of the ‘most distinguished living photographers’