

Is she his muse or partner? Are they faithful or not? Where does one person end and the other begin? Slowly, they fall in love, but quickly, the lines of their relationship blur. As the two work closely together, Lee finds her voice as a photographer. Soon, she meets Surrealist artist Man Ray and convinces him to make her not his subject, but his assistant. When Lee Miller arrives in 1930s Paris, she's determined to put her successful modeling career behind her and go behind the lens.


The Age of Light had me at “a love affair between real-life photographers Lee Miller and Man Ray.” But when I learned it's also the story of a woman who moves beyond muse to artist, I all but threw myself at it and yelled, "Take my money!" I'm a sucker for a woman demanding to be heard.
