Lee Miller, Kendall Lee Glenzer, 1933
Xu Chungang | wen
Lee Miller (1907–1977) was an American supermodel and photographer. He has worked as a model for master photographers such as Man Ray and Edward Steychen. She co-invented the halfway exposure method with Man Ray and was an active participant in the Surrealist movement of the 20th century.
In 1929, Miller came to Paris to develop and became Man Ray's assistant and lover. In order to allow Man Ray to concentrate on painting, many of the photographs were taken by her, so many of the photographs signed by Man Ray in this period (1929-1932) were written by Miller. Even the exposure was miller's accidental discovery, which eventually fell under Man Ray's name.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Miller photographed a series of portraits of art celebrities, including Man Ray, Chaplin, Picasso, Cockato, Magritte, Joseph Cornell, T.S. Eliot, and others.
During World War II, Miller served as a correspondent for several magazines and the only female correspondent and photographer accompanying the U.S. military, covering major events such as the London Blitzkrieg, the liberation of Paris, Buchenwald, and the Dachau concentration camp.
But in his later years, Miller hid all the negatives in the attic, falsely claiming that they had been lost and destroyed in the war. It was not until Miller's death in 1977 that his descendants sorted out his relics and unveiled a legend in the history of photography.
Lee Miller, edward Stechin, 1928
Lee Miller, Exposure Halfway, Man Ray, 1929
Fashion magazine correspondent, Lee Miller, 1942
In 1945, Lee Miller visited Hitler's Palace in Munich, went into the bathroom, put down his camera without saying a word, took off his military uniform, and lay down in Hitler's bathtub to take a shower. Boyfriend photographer David Sherman filmed the moment and named it "The Woman in Hitler's Bathtub."
Lee Miller Photography Collection
Portrait, considered female artist Oppenheim, 1930
Lee Miller, selfie, New York, 1932
Female Fire Vigilante, London, 1940
Abandoned Church, London, 1940
Preparing for War, London, 1942
Dead SS floating on the canal, Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1944
Bomb attack, Saint Malo, France, 1944
Prison Guard, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944
Daughter of a Nazi officer who committed suicide, Germany, 1945
Dead Nazi General, Germany, 1945
Burnt Bones, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1945
Girl on a bicycle under the Eiffel Tower, 1944
Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1944-45
Man Ray, Paris, 1931
Charlie Chaplin, Paris, 1931
Joseph Cornell, New York, 1933
Picasso, Paris, 1937
Jean Coctor, Paris, 1944
Picasso and Lee Miller, Paris, 1944
Stravinsky, Los Angeles, 1946
T.S. Elliott, London, 1947
Dancing Bears and Gypsies, 1938
Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1945
Life history of Lee Miller
Without Lee Miller's permission, Edward Stechin sold Miller's photograph to a Gauges sanitary napkin, 1928
Lee Miller and Man Ray, 1930
Lee Miller's War Press Card, 1942
Lee Miller's life is more legendary and more outrageous than Diane Arbus's. She was born beautiful, and at the age of 7, she was raped by a man who came to her home as a guest, and since then she has had a permanent resistance to men. At the age of 19, she was almost hit by a car on the street, but was pulled by the editor-in-chief of Fashion magazine and became a supermodel ever since. At the age of 21, Edward Stechin used her photographs for gauche sanitary napkins without her permission, making her the first person in history to advertise sanitary napkins, and also making her angrily leave the fashion circle, leave the United States for Paris, and run to the other end of the camera. Man Ray insisted on not accepting students, insisting, "I'm your first student." Since then, she has become Man Ray's assistant and muse, who has taken many surrealist nude photos of her, and she has also helped Man Ray take many unsigned photos of herself. However, while working with Man Ray, she was hated by Man Ray for working with many other artists, and the two eventually turned against each other and broke up. After leaving Man Ray, she returned to the United States to open a studio and became a famous photographer. When Vanity Fair magazine named her "one of the seven most outstanding living photographers," she suddenly closed her doors and ran to concentrate on losing weight. Soon after, she married an Egyptian billionaire. In the midst of a tedious and luxurious life, she fell in love with her later husband, Roland Penroth, a married husband. At the age of 35, she worked as a U.S. military correspondent, covering historical events such as concentration camps closer than any female photographer, but unscathed on the battlefield. At the age of 40, she became pregnant, then quickly divorced and remarried, and gave birth to her son. After the war, she was completely tired of photography, became obsessed with cooking, was highly skilled, and won the first prize in cooking competitions. Throughout her life, she searched again and again, got bored again and again, and eventually became bored, bored, and depressed. She smoked, drank heavily, became ugly, and died of lung cancer at the age of 70. After the 1980s, her 60,000 photographs and complex life history were gradually discovered, collated, and disseminated.