Photographer Lee Miller (1907-1977), born in Poughkeepsie, New York, began her photographic career as a top fashion model for American Vogue and Vanity Fair. In 1929 she became the lover, pupil and collaborator of the surrealist photographer Man Ray in Paris and later ran her own studio there and in New York. Her surrealist images along with her pack shots, portraits and extraordinary WWII combat photographs have earned her a key place in the history of art. Together with her husband Roland Penrose (1900- 1984), a surrealist artist, known to many as a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Antoni Tàpies and close friend of Max Ernst and Paul Eluard, they were developing strong artistic and friendly contacts with all those important artists of the 20th century. The article is based on a personalized research of her art and social life, carried out by their son, Antony Penrose, the director and researcher of the Lee Miller Archives and the Penrose Collection. He has devoted a large part of the last 27 years to studying, caring for and promoting the Archive and the Collection. Antony Penrose has lectured over the years in many establishments worldwide, including the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana in March 2010, where the exhibition entitled The Legendary Lee Miller will be presented at Jakopič Gallery in November 2010.