[nggallery id=11 template=galleryview]Born in New York in 1907, she went to Paris at the age of 22 and worked with the well known Surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray, She became known as a portraitist and fashion photographer, but her most enduring body of work is that of her Surrealist images. After New York she lived in Egypt before she moved to London.In 1944 she became a war correspondent for Vogue. She followed the US troops overseas on ‘D’ Day.. Among her many exploits she witnessed the Liberation of Paris and Hitler’s house at Berchtesgaden in flames.In 1947 she married Roland Penrose, a surrealist artist, and she contributed to his biographies of Picasso, MIró and Man Ray, among others. Some of her portraits of famous artists like Picasso are the most powerful portraits of the individuals ever produced, but it is mainly for the witty Surrealist images which permeate all her work that she is best remembered.