Last night I finally watched 'LEE' on Prime. 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 such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.
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. This part of the script was chilling:
"Everyone's looking for someone but none of us have any answers. They're fucking barbarians. And it's not just Jews. Artists. Communists. Homosexuals. Black people. Gypsies. Anyone with an opinion. Anyone who didn't fit their ideals. They just disappeared. And with no warning. All we know is they pushed them onto trains. Old women. Tiny children. And when they go off on those trains, they don't come back."
But! Lee Miller captured the evidence and her photos were published in American Vogue in 1945. Here she is in Hitler's bathtub.
Lee famously said:
"I would rather take a photograph than be one."
(which I relate to 100%)
1985
Antony Penrose publishes The Lives of Lee Miller.
2005
Carolyn Burke’s biography, Lee Miller: A Life, is published.
2008
The Philadelphia Museum of Art hosts “The Art of Lee Miller.” This is one of many solo and group exhibitions dedicated to Miller’s artistic output.
2017
The Entertaining Freezer was meant to be the title of Miller’s unpublished cookbook, notes Penrose, who wrote the introduction to Ami Bouhassane’s book, Lee Miller: A Life with Food, Friends and Recipes.
2023
Lee, a biopic starring Kate Winslet, premiers at the Toronto International Film Festival.
****This blog post is part of Flash Friday Micro-Learning Photography Class by Patti Friday
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