Tour of the exhibition Lee Miller - Photographer. Icon. Surrealist
The Royal Danish Library's photo curator Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz guides and gives an insight into the story of a woman who was as unconventional as a person as she was as a photographer.
Enter the library's large exhibition LEE MILLER – Photographer. Icon. Surrealist. The exhibition tells the story of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic female icons of the 20th century. Elizabeth "Lee" Miller (1907 – 1977) was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. She was a groundbreaking artist and woman of her time. Throughout her life, she displayed an unimaginable ability to transform herself, taking on a multitude of projects with enormous courage as a model, self-employed businesswoman, surrealist, traveler, writer, Vogue war correspondent and gourmet chef, but most of all she was a dazzlingly good photographer. During World War II, she captured some of the most tragic events of the 20th century with great sensitivity.
The exhibition delves into Lee Miller's life and work through 100 photographs from the period 1929-1964 and through letters, documents and magazines borrowed from the Lee Miller Archives in Sussex, England. Lee Miller's photography and texts bear witness to a person who challenged conventions in regards to being a woman and a photographer.
Photo: Malthe Folke Ivarsson
Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz
Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz is a photo curator and research librarian in charge of the National Collection of Photography at the Royal Danish Library. She has a master's degree and PhD in Art History with a focus on art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz specialises in photography and photography history.
Lee Miller - Photographer. Icon. Surrealist.
Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller (1907-1977) was, both as a photographer and as a person, a norm-breaker, and she lived a completely unusual life.
