An Album: A daybook with works by Lee Miller, Cecil Beaton and their assistant Roland Haupt

....These photographs pasted into this album tell extraordinary stories of an extraordinary period of years. And what I found so profoundly touching about it in a sense was what is being covered here, Lee Miller documenting some of the horrors of the Second World War and its aftermath, balanced with photographs from different areas of the arts, which herald a kind of an ambition to emerge from this war with hope and possibility intact. And I think that equation, you could never sum it up in one picture somehow, but the narrative that is woven through this album brings all that history, all those emotions back to life...

- Philippe Garner

Over the past 35 years, the Michael Hoppen Gallery has had the privilege of working with some of the most extraordinary pieces of photographic history from the expansive and eclectic diaspora that photographic practice covers. This has made our job fascinating and full of wonder. It is heartening to know that these special pieces can still appear when one least expects it, and reinforces my belief that there are important, and as-yet undiscovered photographic gems out there still waiting to be revealed.

That is certainly the case with this extraordinary album.

Michael Hoppen
London, 2025