Women rebels, women who left their mark on history with their subversive behavior.. And here it is another modern “heroine”. is preparing to climb to the top of the most beloved ratings. 2023 will be in the fall “Lee” Miller aka Lady Penrose (Poughkeepsie, April 23, 1907 – Joke, July 21, 1977), note. photographer, World War II photojournalist, muse of Man Ray and Pablo Picasso, and American model.. His figure will be marked from the movie “Lee”directed by Ellen Kuras and starring Kate Winslet, and from the exhibition “Lee” Miller: Dressed, which opens on October 14 at Brighton Museum in London and runs until February 18.
Film dedicated to Miller with Kate Winslet
Along with Picasso and Man Ray, he took subversive war photographs and dressed “outrageously.”: “Lee” Miller was a rebel. In a scene in Ellen Kuras’s film, taken from The Life of Lee Miller, the biography her son Anthony Penrose dedicated to her in 1985, Winslet lies in a two-piece swimsuit, which a decade later was called a bikini. In the 1930s, this costume was considered “scandalous”, but it demonstrated how the photographer loved to challenge conventions. Charming and beautiful, during her more than three-decade career she met a circle of prominent personalities, many of whom became the subjects of her portraits.me, such as Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Fred Astaire, Colette, Maurice Chevalier and Marlene Dietrich. Now, at last, Miller is stepping away from these larger-than-life figures to find her own space, to be rightfully praised for her bold and uncompromising portrayals of the end of World War II. But Miller also holds an important place in the history of fashion and fashion photography. “He has become so famous for his military imagery that the fashion aspects are being ignored.”says his niece Ami Boissanté, who is also the director of Farleys, the Sussex house where Miller has lived since the late 1940s. Romy Cox, curator of the recent exhibition “Man Ray and Fashion” at Momu in Antwerp, says Miller influenced Man Ray’s fashion imagery: “On the one hand, she was a model, and on the other, he studied with her to become a photographer. I think the interaction of these elements sometimes felt like a dialogue between them.”. When war broke out in 1939, Miller was an established photographer working for Vogue. The film, due out this fall, focuses on this stage of his career when “his eye for fashion was so keen,” says costume designer Lee Michael O’Connor.
Exhibitions reveal the “scandalous” side of his clothes, and books offer a glimpse into the most beautiful moments of love with Roland Penrose.
The aforementioned bikini, along with other items from Miller’s wardrobe, was discovered in the attic of her old home and will be displayed alongside other clothing for the first time in London from October 14, 2023 to February 18, 2024. “Lee Miller: Dressed” this is, in fact, exhibition to open at Brighton Museumoffering a look at fashion, life and work of an American model and photographer. Among the items on display will be a red dress likely designed by Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Miller’s famous bikini and a military uniform. Curator Martin Pel says the works tell the story of Miller’s life and his rebellion against norms. The bikini, dating from 1937, is a symbolic example. This predates the trend by about a decade. “It was scandalous, incredibly brave to wear it 10 years ago (it was launched, ed.)”, says Pel. Miller he also wore jodhpurs when women did not wear trousersand lent a black coat to his brother John, who sometimes wore women’s clothing. These clothes will also be presented at the exhibition. “She didn’t care what people thought,” Pel adds. “Lee lived absolutely by his own rules.” What power lies behind this statement in an era when women are determined to undermine patriarchal and chauvinistic societies and stereotypes! Another exhibition dedicated to the Millers will be held in Italy.V Stupinigi hunting lodgein Nichelino, province of Turin, open until January 7, 2024 under the title “Lee Miller: photographer and surrealist”: an exhibition that traces the human and professional history of Lee Miller, paying attention to the photographer’s surreal gaze which becomes a distinctive feature of her poetics: in essence, both her mode of observation and the photographic vocabulary she uses are surreal, characterized by the use of metaphors, antitheses and visual paradoxes aimed at revealing the extraordinary beauty of everyday life. Bye Gagosian Gallery in New York From November 11, a look at Miller’s personal life will be revealed in the exhibition Seeing is Believing: Lee Miller and Friends, which celebrates her marriage to the British surrealist artist, collector and biographer Picasso. Roland Penrose. In addition to photographs by Miller and Penrose, there will also be paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper by Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Valentine Penrose and Pablo Picasso, all artists familiar to their network. In the end booksstands out among them “Love Letters in Golden Handcuffs”released in July in the UK and due in November in the US, which over 300 pages of letters documents the intimate correspondence between Roland and Lee at the beginning of their intense relationship, and features Lee Miller’s work from his travels. and the period of residence in Egypt (1934-1939).