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Man Ray, Lee Miller.

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He was the painter, the filmmaker but, above all,

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one of the great surrealist photographers

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of the 20th century.

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She was the coldly beautiful femme fatale,

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a model who had graced the front pages

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of the greatest fashion magazines.

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Man Ray, and Lee Miller theirs was the story

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of a wild love affair that would reveal

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the talents of an artist who was unknown

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to the world, at large, for too long.

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[upbeat music]

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[traffic humming and honking]

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New York 1926, Lee Miller was 19.

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She was a gentle dreamer but, above all,

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she was very, very beautiful.

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She took lessons in drama, drawing, and painting.

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She had a thirst for art, new experiences,

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and for meeting people.

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One day, she was strolling around town,

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as was often the case, in her mind she was miles away.

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Suddenly, a truck appeared, there was a screeching of tires.

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[cars crashing]

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A man grabbed her by the arm, and saved her life.

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The man\'s name was Conde Nast,

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and he was director of Vogue Magazine.

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But, even more importantly, he ran an empire

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that was extremely influential in the fashion world.

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He was the man who would give Lee Miller a new aim in life.

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[roulette wheel spinning]

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[swing music]

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[champagne bottle popping]

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Meanwhile, in Paris, in the district

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of Montparnasse, it was party time.

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[swing music continues]

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[crowd cheering]

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[swing music continues]

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[crowd laughing]

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Man Ray, 37, was having fun.

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He had arrived from New York five years earlier,

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and had adopted the French capital,

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its heartbeat, its excitement, and its women.

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He was provocative, arrogant, and inquisitive.

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He turned his hand to everything,

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painting, cinema, and especially photography.

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[slow jazz music]

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In a few years, Man Ray had become one

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of the most iconic figures of the surrealist movement.

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[slow jazz music continues]

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He shared his studio in the rue Campagne Premiere

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with a very charismatic woman, Kiki of Montparnasse.

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[crowd applauding]

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She was a singer, a model, she was very beautiful,

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and much sought after.

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She posed nude for great painters,

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but she had chosen to give her heart

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to the American, Man Ray.

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The pair were in love.

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[arrow spinning]

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[gentle music]

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Man had the gift of exalting a woman\'s body.

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And Kiki\'s curves were an inspiration to him.

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In his eyes, she was perfection.

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In 1924, he produced one of his greatest works:

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le Violon d\'Ingres in which Kiki\'s back

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became a musical instrument.

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Man was obsessed by her body.

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And, as time went by, he neglected her heart.

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After six years of disappointed love, she left him.

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[train clacking]

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Man had lost his muse, and his inspiration.

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He no longer had the heart to go partying.

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[crowd buzzing]

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The excesses of Montparnasse made him weary.

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He was selling less and less.

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Alone in his studio, he was suffocating.

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New York, 15th of March, 1927,

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Lee Miller appeared on the front cover of Vogue.

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With her cloche hat and her direct look,

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she symbolized the ideal of the modern woman.

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Conde Nast had done much more

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than simply save her life a year before,

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he had immortalized her beauty on glossy paper.

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[camera shutter clicking]

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Her porcelain complexion, her crystal clear eyes,

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her face like that of a classical statue,

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and her androgynous form fascinated

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the most famous American photographers of the time.

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[dramatic music]

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[child laughing]

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Lee grew up in the state of New York,

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pampered by her parents, as a little girl,

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she was the apple of their eye.

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She was boisterous, mischievous, and independent.

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She could twist her father, Theodore,

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around her little finger.

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He was a brilliant engineer in the region\'s biggest factory.

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Her mother, Florence, took care of the children,

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John, Eric, and Elizabeth, known as Lee.

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Theodore was an eccentric, he shared all the inventions

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of the period with Lee, especially photography.

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[camera shutter clicking]

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The young girl grew up in her father\'s lens

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full of confidence.

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[children talking]

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When Lee was 10, she went sailing

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in a little boat with a boy that she was in love with.

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It was in summer and they were having fun.

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Suddenly, the boy fell into the water,

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and drowned before her eyes,

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Lee would never be the same again.

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And she hid other painful memories.

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I will say nothing about my dark

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and sinister past, about my precocious

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and already sordid experience.

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Suffice to say, that whatever you hear

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about me is probably true.

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1928, New York, Lee was getting bored

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under the spotlights.

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She dreamt of Paris and art with one aim in mind,

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she wanted to be a photographer alongside

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the man everyone was talking about, Man Ray.

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And so, she left America.

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[gentle guitar music]

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After a crossing lasting several days,

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Lee Miller arrived, at last, in Paris.

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She was happy, and single-minded.

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That July afternoon, Lee went to rue Campagne Premiere,

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she was looking for Man Ray\'s studio.

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The concierge told her that the artist had gone to Biarritz.

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To revive her spirits, she went to the nearest cafe,

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Le Bateau Ivre, while chatting to the waiter

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she happened to mention that she was looking for Man Ray,

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he was the main reason she had come to Paris.

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Lady Luck smiled on her for the second time,

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Man Ray walked into the cafe.

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[roulette wheel spinning]

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He seemed to sort of rise up

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from the floor at the top of the spiral staircase.

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He looked like a bull with an extraordinary build,

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very dark eyebrows, and brown hair.

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I proudly told him I was his new pupil.

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He answered that he didn\'t take pupils.

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And anyway, he was leaving Paris to go on holiday.

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I said that I knew that, and I was going with him.

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And that\'s what I did.

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Lee got on a train for the south of France.

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She turned on all her charm and daring.

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And so, she became his apprentice, his model, and his lover

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[gentle violin music]

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♪ It\'s cost me a lot ♪

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♪ But there\'s a one thing that I\'ve got ♪

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♪ It\'s my man ♪

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♪ Cold and wet, tired- ♪

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There was an age difference

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of 17 years, but so what?

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♪ With my man ♪

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Lee was fascinated by Man\'s creativeness,

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freedom, and craziness.

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♪ Is my man. ♪

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Back in Paris, Man was proud to have

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this heaven-sent beauty by his side.

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Lee had found her way into his heart, and his mind.

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♪ But I love him ♪

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♪ My what\'s the difference ♪

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♪ If I say I\'ll go ♪

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Their wild love affair filled their studio.

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♪ When I know I\'ll come back on my knee ♪

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Man Ray was happy, funny, and playful, he was inspired.

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As for Lee, she was under his spell.

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♪ I am his forever more ♪

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[carnival music]

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Man Ray opened the doors of his imagination to Lee Miller.

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Everything was an excuse for fun.

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His favorite playground was Luna Park, a fairground,

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the perfect place for his fantasies.

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[carnival music continues]

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Suddenly, Man Ray grabbed a rifle from a shooting range,

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he aimed at the target and triggered a camera.

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You can see the intimacy of their love in this photo.

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Man Ray was always full of ideas.

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He worked alongside the surrealists Paul Eluard,

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Salvador Dali, and Tristan Tzara

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but especially with his long-time friend, Marcel Duchamp.

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Between them, they freed art from all aesthetic

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and moral constraints.

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[upbeat music continues]

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This artistic movement sprang from dreams and imagination

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against a background of strange fantasies.

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The surrealists relied on chance and set no limits.

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[champagne bottles popping]

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And their art spilled over into their daily lives.

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Love too had to be totally free.

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[upbeat music continues]

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[crowd cheering and applauding]

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This freedom is what Man had always aspired to.

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[gentle guitar music]

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As a boy, Man, whose real name was Emmanuel Radnitski,

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was a highly imaginative child.

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Though he was small, he was still

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the leader of a bunch of friends

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and, at home, being the elder gave him some authority.

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His parents, Jewish immigrants from Russia,

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lived in New York, they were laborers

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and worked hard to bring up their four children.

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Little Emmanuel soon shone his independent spirit

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and his artistic talents, much to the dismay

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of his parents, who worried about his future.

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Even when he was very young,

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the subject of sex tormented him.

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He even bribed girls to show him their private parts.

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And explored the female anatomy through his painting.

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As a teenager, he enrolled in evening classes

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and drew antique statues, though he preferred live models.

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[jazzy music]

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Obsessed by bodies and faces, he tried to fathom

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their mysteries through the new phenomenon

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that was becoming more popular, photography.

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He asserted himself and grew in confidence behind his lens.

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Emmanuel Radnitski became Man Ray, the man of light.

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[dramatic music]

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Lee knew quite well that she had done the right thing

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in binding her fate to his.

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Fate, which would smile on her yet again.

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One day in 1929, Lee was developing prints

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in the dark room when suddenly she screamed.

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Something crawled over my foot in the dark room

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and I screamed, and switched on the light.

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[flash bulb popping]

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I never knew what it was,

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whether it was a mouse, or something else.

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Then, I realized that the film was completely overexposed.

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Man Ray came running and had the sensible idea

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of immersing the negatives in the fixer.

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By sheer luck, he had just carried

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The blacks became white and a line appeared

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around the naked bodies as if they were suffused with halos.

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I had caused this accidental discovery,

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but it was Man Ray who mastered it,

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so that it gave the results he wanted every time.

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He had a unique gift for using a piece

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of sheer luck in a creative process

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Together, they had just invented a process

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that reflected the complicity of their love,

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solarisation.

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This unexpected technique of developing gave Man Ray

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a new burst of inspiration that he turned to his advantage.

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All of Paris wanted to be photographed

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by the famous Man Ray: Miro, Brancusi,

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Breton, Braque, orders were pouring in.

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The two lovers decided to work together.

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This photo by Man and this one by Lee,

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spring from a single inspiration.

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The two works almost merge into one.

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The frontiers between art and intimacy

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no longer exist, all is intertwined.

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Lee learned quickly, allowing her imagination to run free.

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She radically cropped her photos,

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turned them around, made them surprising.

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In September 1930, just a year after they met,

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Lee Miller achieved her ambition,

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and published her first fashion photo in Vogue Magazine.

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In the studio, Man continued obsessively

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to capture Lee\'s beauty.

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But other men were not indifferent to that beauty.

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Lee seduced and fell into the arms of several lovers.

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She applied her are mentor\'s own precept, free love.

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But Man couldn\'t stand her infidelities, he was distraught.

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I\'ve been afraid of only one thing

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over these last few months, that your escapades

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will tarnish the feelings you have for me,

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while mine for you continue to grow.

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You\'re so young, and beautiful, and free.

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And I hate myself so much for trying to put obstacles

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in the way of what I admire most in you,

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and what I found so rarely or rather, never in women.

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[head banging against wall]

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But Lee belonged to no one.

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After months of apprenticeship and work with Man Ray,

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Lee no longer wanted to remain in his shadow.

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[birds chirping]

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[gentle music]

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She left the dark room and strolled through the streets

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of Paris with her Rolleiflex slung around her shoulders.

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[gentle piano music]

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[camera shutter clicking]

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She made the surrealist\'s work her own.

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[camera shutter clicking]

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She was liberated.

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She freed herself at last from the beauty

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that had been so sublimated, and captured by her lover.

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[gentle piano music continues]

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While he revealed her softness, her vulnerability,

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she photographed her straight back,

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the muscles showing like a force of nature, free.

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[man screaming]

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[water splashing]

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[woman grunting]

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Lee\'s photos show a woman struggling with her own image.

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Birds held in a cage on a balcony,

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amputated breasts presented on a plate,

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a woman\'s head under a glass dome.

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With her photos, Lee proclaimed loud

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and clear the artist she had become,

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even if she ruffled her lover\'s ego.

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On a morning in 1930, Man took a low angle photo of Lee.

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Her neck looked prominent and dissatisfied

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with the result, he threw the photo away.

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Lee retrieved it, reframed it, and showed it to Man.

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He was impressed at first, and then became angry.

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He claimed that the photo was his work and not his lover\'s.

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They had a heated argument and Man,

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in a fury, threw Lee out of his studio.

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But when she came, she found the photo on the wall,

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slashed with a razor with spurts

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of red ink trickling from the wound.

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Several months later, Man did a painting of it.

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Lee\'s neck was now in the background.

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The artist signed it with his blood red hand.

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[glass breaking]

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October 11th, 1932, Man Ray didn\'t manage

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to hold onto her, they broke up.

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Lee left him and went back to America.

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[dramatic music]

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Man went mad, he was obsessed by her absence.

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Her face haunted him, above all, her mouth.

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Man got up every morning and with a paintbrush added

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another touch to the lips of his lost love.

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It took him two years to finish the famous painting,

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\"A l\'Heure de l\'Observatoire, les Amoureux.\"

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1939, the outbreak of war, Man Ray fled France,

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as a Jew, his life was in danger.

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He took refuge in the USA.

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Lee made the crossing in the other direction,

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and came to Europe, she decided

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to cover the conflict camera in hand,

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becoming war correspondent for Vogue.

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I took shelter in a German trench

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behind the ramparts, my heel squashed

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the torn off hand of a dead man.

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I picked up the hand and threw it across the street.

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I ran back the way I\'d come, and twisted my heel.

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God, it was awful.

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She was one of the few

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women photographers present when the concentration camps

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were discovered.

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Pictures that would haunt her.

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[somber music continues]

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She then went to Hitler\'s home in Munich

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with war photographer, David Sherman.

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The apartment was deserted, so they moved in.

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[radio announcer speaking in German]

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German radio announced

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that the dictator had just committed suicide.

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Among the photos they took during that time

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is this one composed by David Sherman,

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Lee Miller naked in Hitler\'s bathtub.

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On her left is an antique statue

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looking at a photo of Hitler.

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At her feet, the muddied boots

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that had walked through the camps.

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[fly buzzing]

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Lee sank into depression.

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In 1947, she married the English painter

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and photographer Roland Penrose.

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She was expecting a baby.

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Gradually, she gave up photography.

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[gentle music]

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Man Ray settled in the United States.

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He linked up with some of his surrealist friends,

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among them, Marcel Duchamp.

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He carried on painting, organized exhibitions,

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but now his works attracted much less attention.

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He had lost his main source of inspiration.

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♪ Cold and wet ♪

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♪ Tired, you bet ♪

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♪ But all that- ♪

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Man Ray and Lee Miller never stopped writing to each other.

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Man sent her a present, a surrealist illusion

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to show her another side of life

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through this very mysterious peephole.

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In 1974, in his last letter to her, Man Ray wrote,

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I\'m pinned down in my little retreat.

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I cannot walk, and my doctor seems

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to try out all the pills on the market

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to which I am completely allergic.

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But not to my loves, like you, I mean, I love you.

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♪ What\'s the difference if I say ♪

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♪ I\'ll go away ♪

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Man died in Paris on the 18th of November, 1976

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Lee died eight months later.

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Her son, Anthony Penrose, discovered

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60,000 negatives by Lee Miller.

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He brought to light the work

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of a true artist who remained unknown

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to the general public for far too long.

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