The Royal Academy of Dance has announced a new display of portraits of Dame Margot Fonteyn at its headquarters in Wandsworth, London taken by Vogue photographer and photojournalist Lee Miller in 1944.
The portraits were taken at Vogue Studio in London when Miller was Vogue’s war correspondent, beginning her tenure in the studio then, when women were conscripted from 1941, she moved into the field as one of the first female war correspondents. Miller's work is chronicled in a new film Lee starring Kate Winslet, due for release next month.
Miller’s portraits are part of wider celebrations around The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition, and they also commemorate the 75th anniversary of Farleys House & Gallery, Miller’s former Sussex residence, which is now an art gallery and home to Lee Miller Archives.