Miller, Lee, 1907-1977 (1907-1977)
Dates
- Existence: 1907-1977
Biography
Lee Miller was an American photographer, surrealist artist, and model. Miller began her career in 1926 as a model, handpicked by Condé Nast to be a model at Vogue. She moved to Paris in 1929 and began working for photographer Man Ray, and established her own studio. She photographed many French artists including Paul Éluard, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró. She returned to New York in 1932, opening up her studio up once again, doing celebrity portraiture, surrealist photographs, and advertising work. She also continued to model for and began photographing for Vogue. She closed her studio two years later after she married and moved to Cairo, Egypt. In 1939, she moved to London and began work as a freelance photographer and later in 1943, a war correspondent, for Vogue.