Memories of Lee and creating the Archives

In this fifth episode presenter Ami Bouhassane (granddaughter of Lee Miller and Co-Director of her Archives) speaks with her father Antony Penrose, son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, founder and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives.

Antony Penrose is a Film maker, photographer, author, artist, photo curator, co-founder of the Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection and co-director of Farleys House & Gallery Ltd, managing agents of the Lee Miller Archives. Antony has curated several exhibitions, the most recent being 'Surrealist Lee Miller' which toured internationally. He is author of many publications on his parents including the acclaimed biography 'The Lives of Lee Miller' and best selling childrens book 'The Boy who Bit Picasso'. As an artist he has works in the collection of Falmouth Art Gallery and in Farleys sculpture garden. Antony also lectures internationally on Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their circle of friends.

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Lee Miller’s photography of British fashion for Vogue during World War 2 was prolific yet few are aware of the full extent of this body of her work. Many know Lee Miller’s name in connection to her inspirational World War 2 reportage. Few are aware of the volume of her British fashion images that were published on British Vogue’s pages from 1939 to 1944.

The six part series is produced in conjunction with the release of Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain book and exhibition and explores British fashion during the war, Lee Miller's contribution to the fashion industry in these years and her significant service to the survival of British Vogue magazine.

Audrey Withers, Lee Miller’s editor at British Vogue, wrote as early as 1941:

‘she [Lee Miller] has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue’s [British Vogue’s] history’.

The series is presented by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller's grandaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives

Guest speakers include: Fashion Historian Amber Butchart, Robin Muir, contributing editor to British Vogue, Hilary Roberts, head curator of photography, Imperial War Museums London, Julie Summers, biographer of Audrey Withers and contemporary fashion, Antony Penrose, son of Lee Miller and fine art photographer Viviane Sassen.

Produced by Tolly Robinson

Music from DeWolf Music

This series was made possible by public funding awarded by Arts Council England from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund

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