| LC control no. | n 83131363 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Miller, Lee, 1907-1977 |
| Variant(s) | Miller, Miss Lee Miller, Elizabeth, 1907-1977 Penrose, Elizabeth Miller, 1907-1977 |
| Birth date | 1907-04-23 |
| Death date | 1977-07-21 |
| Place of birth | Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Chiddingly (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers War correspondents |
| Found in | Atelier Man Ray, 1982 (subj.) t.p. (Lee Miller) p. 56 (b. 4/23/08, Poughkeepsie; photographer; d. July 1977, Sussex) Penrose, A. The lives of Lee Miller, c1985: CIP info. from publisher (Elizabeth Miller, b. 4/23/07 (supported by copies of her passport and newspaper clipping); married name, Elizabeth Miller Penrose; literary pseud., Lee Miller) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Miller, Miss Lee; usage: Miss Lee Miller; "Vogue" staff photographer) Lee Miller, photography, surrealism and the Second World War from Vogue to Dachau, 2017: title page (Lee Miller) page 4 of cover (Lee Miller (1907-1977) was an American-born Surrealist and war photographer who, through her role as a model for Vogue magazine, became the apprentice of Man Ray in Paris, and later one of the few women war correspondents to cover the Second World War from the frontline) Wikipedia, February 21, 2018 (Lee Miller; Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907--July 21, 1977), was an American photographer; 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 was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, daughter of Theodore and Florence Miller; in 1934, Miller married the Egyptian businessman and engineer Aziz Eloui Bey; she married British surrealist painter and curator Roland Penrose in 1947; Miller died from cancer at Farley Farm House in Chiddingly, East Sussex in 1977) |
| Associated language | eng |
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