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Lee Miller - online picture library launch

28 February 2013

The Lee Miller Archives have announced that 24 April 2013 will see the long-awaited trade launch of the new online picture library containing around 3000 images from the extensive archive of Lee Miller’s extraordinary catalogue of work. Painstakingly converted into digital format from original prints and negatives, the new online library brings many never seen before images to immediate access for researchers, academics, arts collectors and the public alike.

All aspects of Miller's work are represented in the archive: surrealist artist, World War II, photo-journalist and 20th century fashion and celebrity photographer. The personalities and artists she met and worked with include Clarke Gable, Fred Astaire, Dylan Thomas, Miró, Tapiés and Man Ray to name just a few. The majority of these moving and engaging images have never been seen in print or exhibition before. 

The entire Lee Miller Archives still belong to her family and are carefully kept at her former home (now a living museum), Farley Farm House. The collection, discovered after Lee's death in the attic of the house by Lee and Roland’s son Antony Penrose and his wife, consists of over 60,000 original negatives, 20,000 vintage prints and contact sheets and thousands of original documents and manuscripts. Since their discovery, it has been the aim of the Penrose family to make the archive accessible to others but it is only recently that technology has made this possible and cost effective. After a lengthy period of time to convert the archive to this digital format the first 3000 images will be viewable post-launch via www.leemiller.co.uk

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