Exhibition opening: Lee Miller - Photographer. Icon. Surrealist
Join us when we open an exhibition on the extraordinary life of photographer, icon and surrealist Lee Miller with talks, refreshments and free entry to the exhibition.
Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller (1907-1977) lived a completely unusual life as a photographer, model, business woman, gourmet chef, author and war correspondent.
A norm-breaking artist in a time of breathtakingly rapid change, something she captured in her photographs: war reports from the Second World War and surrealist compositions which included the changing role of women as a theme. With enormous courage, Miller threw herself into a host of projects – but most of all she was a fantastically good photographer.
Meet the people who know Lee Miller the best
At the opening of the exhibition you can meet the two people alive with the most insight into Lee Miller’s life and work: Her granddaughter Ami Bouhassane and her son Antony Penrose, who are Co-Directors of the Lee Miller Archives, will give an introduction to Lee Miller’s intense life in conversation with Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz, Curator of Photography at the Royal Danish Library, on stage in in the Queen’s Hall.
Subsequently there will be refreshments in the atrium and an opportunity to see the exhibition.
There will also be free access to the permanent photo exhibition The Camera and Us.
Programme
- 16:30 Interview with Lee Miller's son and granddaughter, Antony Penrose og Ami Bouhassane, both co-directors af the Lee Miller Archives.
- 17:30 The exhibition opens and the Diamond invites you for a refreshment in the Atrium
The exhibition is supported by:
Knud Højgaards Fond
Handelsgartner Harry Opstrups Fond