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Lee Miller
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose 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.
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culture · American photographer and photojournalist (1907–1977) · war correspondent · war photographer · photojournalist · model · journalist · artist · fashion photographer · photographer · actor · also Lee Miller, Elizabeth Miller, Lady Penrose Miller, Elizabeth Miller Penrose, Lady Penrose, Miss Lee Miller
Born 23 April 1907 · Died 21 July 1977 · Q265131
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perfectly suited to women as a profession... it seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in photography than men... women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have an intuition that helps them understand personalities more quickly than men.
2026· 2 entries
Variety: Asa Butterfield, Jonny Lee Miller and Christine Tremarco Join Beatles Series ‘Hamburg Days’
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2025· 3 entries
Hyperallergic: The Glitter and Doom of Lee Miller's Vision
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World Socialist Web Site: Lee Miller retrospective: “I didn’t waste a minute of all my life”
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Yahoo: Lee Miller’s scintillating life makes for a sexy yet devastating show
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2015· 2 entries
And The Age of Light, by Whitney Scharer, released in 2019
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An exhibition of Miller's photographs at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Lee Miller and Picasso, focused "on the relationship between Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and Pablo Picasso"
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2012· 1 entry
Dream pop band Cigarettes After Sex released their EP 'I
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2007· 1 entry
Traces of Lee Miller: Echoes from St
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2005· 2 entries
Miller's life story was turned into a musical, Six Pictures of Lee Miller, with music and lyrics by British composer Jason Carr
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Carolyn Burke's substantial biography, Lee Miller, A Life, was published
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2002· 1 entry
And a 1946 radio interview with Miller can be heard on it
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1985· 1 entry
Penrose published the first biography of Miller, entitled The Lives of Lee Miller
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1977· 1 entry
Died 1977-07-21.
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1949· 1 entry
The couple bought Farley Farm House in Chiddingly, East Sussex
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1946· 1 entry
Miller travelled with Roland Penrose to the United States, where she visited Man Ray in California
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1944· 1 entry
Miller was tasked with reporting on what she was told was the newly-liberated town of Saint-Malo
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1934· 1 entry
Miller abandoned her studio to marry the Egyptian businessman and engineer Aziz Eloui Bey, who had come to New York City to buy equipment for the Egyptian National Railways
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1933· 1 entry
Julien Levy gave Miller the only solo exhibition of her life
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1932· 3 entries
For the Poughkeepsie Evening Star, Miller stated that photography was "perfectly suited to women as a profession
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“perfectly suited to women as a profession... it seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in photography than men... women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have an intuition that helps them understand personalities more quickly than men.”
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Miller returned to New York City
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1930· 1 entry
During Miller and Ray's time in Paris together
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1929· 2 entries
To make drawings of fashion details in Renaissance paintings but, in time, grew tired of this and found photography more efficient
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Miller traveled to Paris intending to apprentice with the surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray
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1926· 2 entries
Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1925–1926).
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And joined an experimental drama program at Vassar College, taught by Hallie Flanagan, a pioneer of experimental theatre
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1925· 1 entry
Aged 18, Miller moved to Paris in France, where she studied lighting, costume, and design at the Ladislas Medgyes' School of Stagecraft
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-04-23.
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