About Lee Miller
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine-art photographer there. Although, at first, he insisted that he did not take students, Miller soon became his model and collaborator (announcing to him, "I'm your new student"), as well as his lover and muse. At the end of their journey, Miller returned to Cairo, and Penrose to London, where he created one of the earliest known surrealist photobooks, titled The Road is Wider Than Long, dedicated to Miller. Along with Man Ray, Miller rediscovered the photographic technique of solarisation through an accident that has been variously described. One of the apartments became her home, while the other became the Lee Miller Studio.
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