Lee Miller: Who Was the Real Photographer Played by Kate Winslet in the Biopic ?

“Lee Miller: who was the real photographer played by Kate Winslet in the biopic?”

Réalisé par : Ellen Kuras Avec : Kate Winslet , Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Marion Cotillard , Josh O'Connor Genre : Biopic Sortie le 09/10/2024 Durée 01h56 0 /5 Donnez votre avis Synopsis Voir la bande-annonce Trouver une séance Vos avis

Kate Winslet stars as war photographer Lee Miller in the new biopic set to hit theaters October 9, 2024.

American photographer and reporter Lee Miller is getting her own biopic. Released on October 9, 2024, the feature film that soberly bears her name is directed by Ellen Kuras, an American filmmaker who chose Kate Winslet to play the lead role. Lee Miller traces the life of the woman who was born on April 23, 1907, into a Protestant family with progressive views, which forged the character of this war correspondent during the Second World War.

But who was the real Lee Miller ? Her childhood, raised as an equal with her brothers, was nevertheless punctuated by dramas before she became recognized as a major figure in photojournalism: a victim of rape at the age of seven and suffering from a sexually transmitted disease thereafter, she also lost her boyfriend in adolescence, who died of drowning. As an adult, she went on to study at École nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris before leaving for New York in the late 1920s. There she was spotted by the founder of Vogue magazine, who offered her modeling work.

Her beginnings as a photographer

Her meeting with the painter and photographer Man Ray in Paris would also be decisive. In 1930, she took up Man Ray's fashion photography commissions again, even if some of her shots were unfairly signed by her partner. However, she trained in photography through this experience and then participated in Parisian surrealism, rubbing shoulders with the greatest artists of this movement. She would even be, at the end of the 1930s, a model for Pablo Picasso, whom she photographed in return. But her very violent break-up with Man Ray made her leave for New York in 1932, and she then opened her own photography studio, before marrying the Egyptian businessman Aziz Eloui Bey, before leaving him a few years later.

A war correspondent, she photographed the horror of the camps

During the Second World War, Lee Miller was accredited by the US Army and took pictures of the Blitz, before becoming a war correspondent in the American army in the summer of 1944. She then commented on the daily life of American soldiers before discovering the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau. She was one of the first to photographing the horror of the camps, which would be published in Vogue.

After the Second World War, Lee Miller sank into alcoholism and depression due to post-traumatic stress. She married Roland Penrose in 1947, with whom she had a son. She then only took photographs occasionally, illustrating the works of Penrose and Picasso. She died of cancer on July 21, 1977 at 70 years old.

Synopsis– A former Vogue model and Man Ray muse, Lee Miller became one of the first female war photographers. Having gone to the front and ready to do anything to bear witness to the horrors of the Second World War, she changed the world through her courage and refusal of conventions. the way of seeing the world…

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