Kate Winslet will bring photographer Lee Miller to life on screen. Ellen Kuras, nominated for an Oscar for her documentary The Betrayal , will direct the biopic dedicated to the correspondent of the American army during the Second World War. If the project has been on the table for some time already, this time, funding is found (Rocket Science) and the heirs of Lee Miller have granted access to all of the photographer's archives.
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EVENT: Lee Miller's War: Witnessing Women. . . Whilst recording WWII events Lee Miller was also photographing & writing about aspects of womens' roles during the war, wartime fashion, work of the WRNS, the ATS, land girls, refugees, nurses, concentration camp victims, women accused of collaboration and those forced into slave labor. . . Her story and that of the women she encountered is told through Miller's own images presented by her son Antony Penrose and Miller's words spoken by her granddaughter Ami Bouhassane. . . The dramatized performance is set to a continuous stream of images and lasts 1 hour 20 minutes with an interval ... . The following the presentation is a chance to be part of the @farleyshg exhibition openings for Grim Glory: Lee Miller's Britain at War and Dreaming The Found, an exhibition of works by Kathleen Fox. Kathleen will be in attendance to talk about her exhibition. . . 🌟DATES: Thursday 9th April @ 6.30pm at Farleys 🌟BOOKING: see tickets page on @Farleyshg website (link in bio). . . . . Image: Lee Miller in helmet customized for use with a camera, Normandy, France 1944 © Lee Miller Archives, England 2020 All rights reserved www.leemiller.co.uk. . . . #leemiller #womenatwar #womenduringthewar #wwiii #wwiiwomen #womenofwwii #ats #wrns #wrens #photography #photographer #warcorrespondent #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #vintage #wartimefashion
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“Lee Miller had a passion for exposing the truth which led him to photograph the brutal realities of World War II that were hushed up at the time. This film takes us on a journey where loyalty and betrayal intersect, and which reveals the conundrum that was Lee - as someone who buried his own truths, "said Ellen Kuras to the Hollywood Reporter.
An unusual life
The film will be based on the book by Anthony Penrose - who is none other than the photographer's son - The Lives of Lee Miller , which will be adapted by Liz Hannah.
Lee Miller, born in New York State, began as a model, before arriving in Paris in 1929 where she worked with Man Ray and then set up her own photo studio. The former specialist in portraiture and fashion photography became a freelance photographer for Vogue , before joining the United States Army in 1944 as an accredited war correspondent.
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75 years ago today, 30th April 1945 - the liberation of Dachau prision camp. . Lee Miller wrote for her picture caption: 'The overcrowded "blocks" of prisoners were re-crowded by incoming evacuated prisoners from other camps and the triple decker bunks, without blankets, or even straw held two and three men per bunk who lay in bed , too weak to circulate the camp in victory marches or songs, although they mostly grinned [...] peering over the edge. In the few minutes it took me to take the attached pictures, two men were found to be dead, and were unceremoniously dragged out and thrown on the heap outside the block. Nobody seemed to mind except me. The doctor said it was too late for more than half the others in the buiding anyway .. '. . Lee had arrived in the town of Dachau the evening before: 'as shells were falling. The camp had already been "liberated" by the combined operations of the 42nd and the 45th Infantry Division. Went to camp this morning..which was typical of all great Nazi concentration camps. Just outside a picturesque town, large barracks area of ​​oblong buildings. Half of the camp was devoted to permanent billeting of SS troops and other half to half starved crazed prisoners. In this case the camp is so close to the town that there is no question about the inhabitants knowning what went on ... '. . She recorded the horrors of the camp in a cold rage. Determined for there to be a record to show the world. She cabled back to Vogue what she had witnessed. The article in American Vogue took the theme of her message as it's title 'Believe it'. . . . . . Image: liberated prisoners in their bunks, Dachau prison camp, Germany 1945 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2020. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk. . . . . . #leemiller #leemillerarchives #wwiihistory #wwii # 75yearsago #dachau #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #noiretblancphotographe #photographer #fotoblancoynegro #fotografo #fotographie #fotographia
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Lee Miller notably covered the Liberation of Paris, as well as that of the Buchenwald and Dachau camps.
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In the 1950's Roland Penrose was commissioned, with Picasso's blessing, to write the first official biography of the artist. . Roland wrote of the moment he broached the subject with Picasso; 'I told Picasso that I wanted to write a book about him. His reaction was more encouraging than I had dared to hope. He seized me with both hands and his black eyes looked deep into me as he said: 'It's true! C'est bien '... He said:' Even if there are other books each person has his own views, sees the question differently, and that's what makes a book worthwhile '. It took four years for the book to come to fruition. Several times a year Lee and Roland would visit Picasso's home, Villa La Californie, so Roland could conduct interviews, with Lee not missing the opportunity to take portraits of the artist. . . Image: Picasso, Villa la Californie, Cannes, France 1956 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2020. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk. . . . . #leemiller #leemillerarchives #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #noiretblancphotographe #photographer #fotoblancoynegro #fotografo #fotographie #fotographia #picasso #rolandpenrose #cannes
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His portraits of artists, notably Picasso, are also famous.
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