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Here's a bonus episode from the series.

'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane shares love letters from her grandmother, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.

This series explore the 300 pages of love letters written between the iconic photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose during their courtship. Starting just a few days after they first met in June 1937 at a fancy dress party in Paris, the letters continue for 2 years charting their love, their friends such as Man Ray, Picasso, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Nusch and Paul Eluard, their adventures, the build up of world war II, some scandals and a lot of fun.

The series is available on www.Patreon.com/LeeMillerArchives to LoveLee Letters, Sliver and Platiunum Patreon teir subscribers

Presented by Ami Bouhassane

Roland Penrose played by Adam Grayson

Guest Speakers: Hilary Roberts and Antony Penrose

Producer: Tolly Robinson

Music composed by David Cullen

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The final episode of the series presented by Ami Bouhassane (granddaughter of Lee Miller and Co-Director of her Archives) who in this episode looks to present day fashion photography practice and speaks with the contemporary fine art and fashion photographer Viviane Sassen.

Viviane Sassen is a Dutch photographer who trained in fine art and photography. Before Viviane became a photographer, like Lee Miller, she was also a model. Viviane has exhibited her fine art photography in many exhibitions and her fashion photography has been in numerous well known magazines such as Vogue. A retrospective of 17 years of her fashion photography, In and Out of Fashion, opened at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, in 2012, it then went to the Rencontres d'Arles festival, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Fotomuseum Winterthur. Viviane was awarded the Dutch art prize, the Prix de Rome, in 2007, and in 2011 won the International Center of Photography in New York's Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography. In 2015 she was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal from the German Photography Academy, and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her exhibition Umbra. She has also received numerous awards for her publications.

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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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A taster of the final episode of the series presented by Ami Bouhassane (granddaughter of Lee Miller and Co-Director of her Archives) who in this episode looks to present day fashion photography practice and speaks with the contemporary fine art and fashion photographer Viviane Sassen.

Viviane Sassen is a Dutch photographer who trained in fine art and photography. Before Viviane became a photographer, like Lee Miller, she was also a model. Viviane has exhibited her fine art photography in many exhibitions and her fashion photography has been in numerous well known magazines such as Vogue. A retrospective of 17 years of her fashion photography, In and Out of Fashion, opened at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, in 2012, it then went to the Rencontres d'Arles festival, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Fotomuseum Winterthur. Viviane was awarded the Dutch art prize, the Prix de Rome, in 2007, and in 2011 won the International Center of Photography in New York's Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography. In 2015 she was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal from the German Photography Academy, and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her exhibition Umbra. She has also received numerous awards for her publications.

More info on series:

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

Podcast content: © Lee Miller Archives, England 2021. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.