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Lee Miller was an American photographer who worked for British Vogue during the Second World War. She started working as a model, but was eager to move behind the camera. On the outbreak of war in 1939, Miller offered to work as a photographer for Vogue – an offer that was initially rejected. Instead, she was taken on as a studio assistant.
Lee Miller. Elizabeth " Lee " Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine art photographer there. During World War II, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Kirsten Dunst as war photographer Lee Smith in "Civil War." (A24) Born in 1907, Lee Miller was introduced to photography at a very young age, as her father was an amateur photographer who often ...
How Lee Miller, a Magazine Model and Muse, Became a Daring World War II Photographer. The bold journalist, who made a splash on both sides of the lens, is the subject of a new biopic starring Kate ...
- Kate Wheeling
Mar 19, 2021 · Courtesy Salvador Dali Museum. When war photographer, fashion model and Surrealist muse Lee Miller died at the age of 70 in 1977, her name was known to a select few experts in the art world. Her ...
- Angelica Villa
Lee Miller was a true renaissance woman. In her 70 years, she lived many lives in many countries practicing many professions. She was a Vogue model, muse to Pablo Picasso and Roland Penrose, director of her own photo studio, journalist, photographer, and gourmet cook. Of her many lives, none was more exciting and devastating than her work as a ...
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Aug 2, 2018 · The surreal scene that Miller described is one typical of war, but entirely new to her. Yet as her son, Antony Penrose, observed in his 1998 biography of his mother, The Legendary Lee Miller: Photographer, 1907–1977, her unique background capturing uncanny moments and haunting, bizarre portraits during the heyday of the Surrealist movement served her well in war photography.
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