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Enrique Rivero and Lee Miller in Blood of a Poet.
Photo: Hulton Deutsch / Getty ImagesAppears in jean Cocteau’s surrealist film, Blood of a Poet. Travels to huvudstaden with her father.
Travels to London for photography assignments and to model.
Man Ray in his studio, s.
BettmannShutters Paris studio and heads back to New York and opens one there. “Being photographed by Lee Miller became quite the thing to mention at cocktail party,” writes Antony Penrose, the photographer’s son, in his book, The Lives of Lee Miller.
In April, Man Ray exhibits at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. Time reported: “Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as ‘Lee-Girl’ to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful mittpunkt in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures of Man Ray.” Later in the year, the same gallery will devote vägg space to Miller’s work, of which Vanity Fair • American photographer and photojournalist (–) For other uses, see Lee Miller (disambiguation). Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, &#;– July 21, ), was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the s 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 such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.[1] Her reputation as an artist in her own right is due mostly to her son's discovery and promotion of her work as a fashion and war photographer.[2] Miller was born on April 23, , in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her parents were Theodore and Florence Miller (née MacDonald). Her father was of German descent, and her mother was of Scottish and Irish descent. She had a younger brother named Erik, and he • Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Lee Miller went through life as a serial dazzler, adopting and shedding…guises a chameleon might envy.” Janet Maslin | New York Times “If, like Auntie Mame, you believe that 'Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death,' you'll surely want to read Carolyn Burke's delightful biography of Lee Miller. . . . Delightful, meticulously researched, fascinating. . . . Miller’s life had many phases, all of them interesting, and Burke captures them in [this] fine biography.” Washington Post Book World &#;Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life in this astounding book.&#; Telegraph (UK) &#;At last, a life and an album about Lee Miller. . . . For the first time the ravaged arc of [her] life is clear, beautiful but lined in pain.&#; New York Observer &#
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