Tavistock Guildhall present another in our series of Arts Talks online.
The Indestructible Lee Miller by Anthony Penrose.
Thursday 25 March 2021 7pm
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, was an American photographer and photojournalist. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, 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
She married the British artist Roland Penrose and her final career was as a surrealist gourmet cook in her last home, Farleys House in Sussex. Her life was filled with passion, heartbreak and high drama. Her secret in moving forward was to grab her chances with both hands. It made her indestructible in the sense that today her work is the subject of many books, TV documentaries, international exhibitions and in 2022 a feature film.
For the past 30 years Anthony Penrose and his family have conserved and disseminated the work of his parents, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. He is the director of The Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection at Farley Farm House in Sussex and has seen his parents' work featured in major exhibitions at the V&A, National Portrait Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Whitworth. He has lectured at museums and universities around the world, and made documentaries for television. Publications include The Lives of Lee Miller, Lee Miller's War (editor), The Angel and the Fiend, The Home of the Surrealists, Roland Penrose the Friendly Surrealist and The Boy Who Bit Picasso. In this talk Antony’s daughter and co-director Ami is co-narrator and the voice of Lee Miller.
This event is to raise funds for Tavistock Heritage Trust
Tavistock Heritage Trust is a registered charities.
Image used by kind permission of www.leemiller.co.uk