Kate Winslet tracked down one of the world's last Rolleiflex technicians for her Lee Miller biopic – and made a replica camera for her co-star in the movie

Kate Winslet tracked down one of the world's last Rolleiflex technicians for her Lee Miller biopic – and made a replica camera for her co-star in the movie

Lee Miller (1907-1977) is one of 20th century photography's most intriguing figures. She went from Vogue model to Man Ray's collaborator and muse in Paris, before reinventing herself again as one of the few female photojournalists accredited to cover the front lines of the Second World War. And there's a story about her and her Rolleiflex that tells as much about her as her images do. According to her son, Antony Penrose, cofounder of the Lee Mi…