Lee Miller Nude Confidential Content Additions #704

Miller’s oeuvre extends from surrealistic images to photography in the fields of fashion, travelling, portraiture and even war correspondence The albertina presents a survey of the work in its breadth and depth, with the aid of 100 selected pieces Lee miller began her artistic career as a surrealist photographer in the paris of 1929. 1930three gelatin silver prints each credited in an unknown hand in pencil (verso) Credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels from national portrait gallery, london and scottish national portrait gallery, edinburgh (frame backing) each image/sheet Approximately 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in Nude bent forward, paris c Miller's father introduced her and her brothers to photography at an early age Lee miller, untitled (exploding hand), guerlain parfumerie, paris, ca 1931 the female body—so fetishized in surrealist art—is almost unrecognizable in nude bent forward That we are looking at a body is clear The grain of the skin has been beautifully, duskily rendered. The earliest known nude study of lee miller, who was christened elizabeth, was made by her father, theodore, an engineer whose hobby was photography. “nude bent forward” is a 1930 photograph by the artist lee miller, associated with the surrealism art movement This striking piece of art captures the genre of photography It poignantly reflects the surrealist preoccupation with the uncanny and the subconscious, as evoked through its provocative subject and composition The artwork depicts a human figure, specifically a nude torso bent.