Several members of the BEWI Camera Club joined The New Milton Arts Society for one of their regular monthly meetings in February. The talk was about Lee Miller’s extraordinary career. Born in 1907 she said “[I was] practically born and brought up in a dark room” and exposed to a camera by working in front of it, Miller was one of the most sought-after models of the late 1920s. She quickly stepped behind the lens, becoming a leading figure in the avant-garde scenes in New York, Paris, London and Cairo. Famously charismatic and sharply intelligent, having travelled, modelled, created art, experimented, Miller became an accredited war correspondent with the US Army in late 1940s. The visions captured in her imagery, especially her pictures of the war, haunted her for the rest of her life. The lecture was spell-binding. A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller has just finished at the Tate Britain.
This was most definitely an inspirational talk for the Camera Club.
