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Photos, paintings, and sculptures featuring her (usually nude) body were so ubiquitous at the time, Davis wryly notes, that one 1932 article wrote she was “widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris.” Then came Surrealism and Man Ray, an American photographer in Paris who played a legendary role in the city’s artistic innovation and bohemian life. Then came Surrealism and Man Ray, an American photographer in Paris who played a legendary role in the city’s artistic innovation and bohemian life. As other women threw off prescriptive gender roles on the homefront, Miller began following the Allies throughout Europe as a photojournalist. But Lee Miller was more than a model-she was an artist and a photographer in her own right.