London exhibition devoted to the photographer Lee Miller
The Victoria & Albert Museum (V & A) in London next September will devote an exhibition to the photographer Lee Miller, met during the one hundred years of his birth.
Entitled The Art of Lee Miller, the V & A show some of the work of the photographer never displayed, as well as snapshots of Pablo Picasso and Charles Chaplin.
The museum, which will present images taken at the Second World War (1939-45), seeks to highlight the work of the only woman photographer in combat zones.
Miller began his professional life to the twenty years before the camera but because it was the cover of Vogue magazine, while Muse was important photographers of his time as Man Ray.
The exhibition opens September 15 and will be shown until June 6 next year.
Miller set up his first photographic studio in 1932 and focused on fashion and advertising.
As a freelance photographer for Vogue, Lee with his camera captured the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau (Germany) and the floor of Adolf Hitler in Munich.
One hundred years after his birth (in 1907), the exhibition at the V & A "tells the story of one of the most creative women of the twentieth century," said the curator of the show, Mark Haworth-Booth, in a note released today.
Miller died in 1977 in Sussex (south-east of England), where he lived for nearly thirty years after marrying the English surrealist painter and poet Roland Penrose.
Via El Universal
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