Lee miller biography photographer
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From fashion model to photojournalist and World War II correspondent, Lee Miller's extraordinary career produced some of the most iconic images of the 20th century.
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Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1907.
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Her father, Theodore Miller, was an enthusiastic amateur photographer and introduced techniques such as the stereograph to Miller and her two brothers. After being expelled from school in 1922, Miller moved to Paris in 1925, aged just 18, to study lighting, costume, and theatre design at the Ladislas Medgyes' School of Stagecraft.
She returned to New York in 1926 to continue her theatre studies, and later in life, drawing and painting.
In 1927, Miller's modelling career launched on the cover of American Vogue, where she appeared as a drawing by the artist George Lepape.
Her look embodied what Vogue's then editor-in-chief Edn