A Vast Horizon: Artists And Lovers, Freedom And War

Late summer 1937. Europe is inching towards war. In the South of France a group of friends picnic in a secluded clearing. The women have peeled down their dresses to their waists. Shoes have been cast aside. A couple kiss playfully while the others look on, laughing. The moment is captured in a now iconic image by photographer Lee Miller.

In a series of evocative scenes, biographer Anna Thomasson traces the group’s individual and intertwined lives through the photographs they took, the art they made and the poems and letters they wrote. From the heady, fertile weeks of creativity, sex and collaboration of that Mediterranean summer through the tumultuous years that followed, it is the story of rebellious lives and the redemptive power of art.