BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8490@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20240323 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20241201 DTSTAMP:20240405T112603Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/victoria-gallery-museum-lee-mill er-friends-at-farleys/ SUMMARY:Victoria Gallery & Museum: Victoria Gallery & Museum: Lee Miller - Friends at Farleys DESCRIPTION:The University of Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery and Museum (VG &\;M) presents photography exhibition\, LEE MILLER – Friends at Farl eys.\n\nOn from Saturday 23 March – 30 November 2024\, this free exhibit ion of 35 exclusive photographic prints taken in the 1950s\, capture Mille r and her husband at their farmhouse in the East Sussex countryside.\n\nTh e property\, named Farleys House\, was bought by Miller and her husband\, the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose\, in 1949. Here\, they raised their s on Antony and entertained their wide circle of creative friends drawn from the worlds of art\, literature\, theatre and film. Among the most notable artists who stayed were Pablo Picasso\, Man Ray\, Max Ernst\, Dorothea Ta nning\, Richard Hamilton and Reg Butler\, all of whom were caught by Mille r’s camera.\n\nIn this exhibition\, Miller’s warm and witty photos cap ture the convivial atmosphere of Farleys House. At its heart is a selectio n of tongue-in-cheek portraits Miller took for an article called Working Guests\, published in British Vogue’s July 1953 edition. Here visitors are apparently set mundane household tasks including gardening\, preparing food and looking after farm animals.\n\nLee Miller (1907 – 1977) is one of the most important and revered photographers of the 20th century. Her varied career began in the 1920s as a fashion model in her native New Yor k\, but by the end of the decade she preferred to work behind the camera. She was part of the Surrealist avant-garde in 1930s Paris\, then an offici al correspondent for the U.S. Army during World War II. She was also a hig hly sought after fashion photographer whose work appeared in British and A merican Vogue.\n\nThe works have been loaned from the Lee Miller Archives based at Farleys House as part of their 75th anniversary celebrations.\n\ nNicola Euston\, Head of Museums and Galleries at the University of Liverp ool\, said: “We are thrilled to present this exhibition of Lee Miller’ s work. In this age of the selfie and the casual snap of friends and famil y it is inspirational to see how this brilliant photographer cajoles those around her to create interesting poses in a domestic environment.\n\n“W e’re delighted to participate in the 75th anniversary year of Farleys H ouse and be part of their celebrations.”\nMore about Lee Miller\nMiller was born in Poughkeepsie\, New York in 1907\, and first became known in th e 1920s as a successful fashion model working with leading photographers o f the day. However\, she quickly decided that she would “rather take a p icture than be one”\, and in 1929 she moved to Paris to work alongside M an Ray\, the Surrealist artist and photographer\, establishing her own pio neering photographic studio.\n\nMiller moved back to New York in 1932\, se tting up a photographic studio there. But then was to meet and marry the w ealthy Egyptian businessman Aziz Eloui Bey and relocating with him to Cair o.\n\nLife took another turn when she visited Paris in 1937 and met the Br itish Surrealist artist Roland Penrose\, whom she later married. At this p oint she was freelancing as a photographer for Vogue\, yet in 1944 Miller was appointed an official correspondent for the US Army working alongside her friend\, the LIFE photographer David E. Scherman\, as they covered the front-line war in Europe. She documented the Liberation of Paris as well as traumatic scenes at the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau Concentrati on Camps. She billeted in and photographed Hitler’s house in Munich.\n\n After the war Miller turned back to fashion photography but made a major l ife-change after the birth of her son Antony. She and Penrose bought Farle ys\, set in the East Sussex countryside and she gradually dialled back her photographic work to become an award-winning cook\, taking inspiration fr om her life-long love for Surrealism.\n\nLee Miller died at Farleys in 197 7.\n\nFor more information about Lee Miller see the Lee Miller Archives\n \nImage credit: Picasso by the signpost\, 1950 © Lee Miller Archives\, E ngland\, 2024. All rights reserved. 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