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Lee Miller Archives and Gray M.C.A

Talk: Pioneers of Fashion: Lee Miller & Carl Erickson

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Feb. 22, 2024
- 6:30 p.m.

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Lee Miller Archives and Gray M.C.A

To accompany the exhibition, ‘Pioneers of Fashion’, Ami Bouhassane, Co-Director, Lee Miller Archives, and Connie Gray, Fashion Curator, Gray M.C.A Gallery, discuss the work of legendary fashion photographer, Lee Miller (1907-1977), and visionary fashion illustrator, Carl Erickson (1891-1958).

The talk will examine the similarities, the influence and importance of these two great pioneers of documenting fashion during the interwar years, the complexities, and differences of working with lens and brush respectively and the relationship between the two mediums.
 

Click here for more information on the exhibition, ‘Pioneers of Fashion: The Fashion Photography of Lee Miller & Illustration of Carl Erickson’.
 

Image: Marlene Dietrich models Schiaparelli, Paris, France 1944 by Lee Miller, © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk

Image: (detail) ‘Wednesday Lunch’, Carl Erickson, Vogue 1936 © Condé Nast / Gray M.C.A. All rights reserved.
 

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Lee Miller Archives and Gray M.C.A

Lee Miller Archives and Gray M.C.A

Lee Miller Archives

The Lee Miller Archives (LMA) is a small, privately run archive which is dedicated to conserving, publishing and cataloguing the lifestyle and holding of works by Lee Miller and her husband Roland Penrose.

The aim of the LMA is to promote scholarship and dissemination of Lee Miller & Roland Penrose’s work worldwide in a manner commensurate with the artistic and humanitarian principles of the two artists.

The LMA is supported entirely on the sale of rights, photographs and the opening of her home, Farleys House & Gallery, to the public.

The LMA holding includes some 60,000 negatives, mainly black and white, most of Lee’s manuscripts, captions, notes, letters and ephemeral material, her cameras, and some of her personal effects and clothes such as her US Army uniform. We hold approximately 3,000 photographs by Roland Penrose and photography by David E. Scherman, Man Ray, Antony Penrose and Andrew Lanyon.

Farleys House & Gallery Ltd. are the managing agents for the Lee Miller Archives.

All Lee Miller’s work is copyright © Lee Miller Archives, and may not be reproduced in any way, stored in a retrieval system or copied without prior consent.

Fine Archival Prints for collectors printed from the original negative where possible and a selection of prints may be viewed by appointment.

The viewing of the material at the Lee Miller Archives in East Sussex, England is limited and strictly by appointment only. Searches may be done by our Archives staff, who can also undertake research projects by arrangement.

Lee Miller Archives

 

Gray M.C.A

Gray M.C.A are leading specialists in the fields of original fashion illustration, artist’s textiles & design. The gallery celebrates and promotes the beauty, innovation, and style of fashion illustration, artist’s textiles, and design.

Gray M.C.A are leading specialists in the fields of original fashion illustration, artist’s textiles, and design. Exhibiting in London and New York the gallery works closely with institutions, curators, and researchers. Founded in 2010 by Ashley and Connie Gray, Gray M.C.A annually curates internationally acclaimed exhibitions that celebrate and promote the beauty, innovation, and style of these three disciplines.

Gray M.C.A