#‘Lee’ a film by Ellen Kraus

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Detail of Self portrait with headband, New York Studio, New York, USA c1932 by Lee Miller.

© Lee Miller Archives England 2023

Portrait of Space, Al Bulwayeb, near Siwa, Egypt 1937 by Lee Miller.

© Lee Miller Archives England 2023

Fire Masks, Downshire Hill, London, England 1941 by Lee Miller.

© Lee Miller Archives England 2023

Nude bent forward, Paris, France c1930 by Lee Miller.

© Lee Miller Archives England 2023

A beauty who captured war’s ugliness, Lee Miller’s time is finally here: Surrealist Lee Miller is at Heide Museum of Modern Art from November 4, 2023 to February 25, 2024.

The model, muse, photographer and trailblazer is the subject of a new exhibition - and a film starring Kate Winslet.

The exhibition, Surrealist Lee Miller, at Heide Museum of Modern Art features more than 100 photographs, spanning portrait, fashion and surrealist photography in Paris and New York in the 1920s and ’30s, along with landscape, architecture and World War II.

By Kerrie O'Brien

The Age - October 29, 2023

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Lee Miller

On April 30, 1945, photojournalists David E. Scherman and Lee Miller produced one of the most controversial photographic series of the twentieth century; while documenting Hitler's apartment on the day of his suicide, they photographed each other bathing in the Führer's tub. In Hatje Cantz's new release, Elissa Mailänder writes, "Within Germany, Hitler represented less horror and mass violence than he did rebirth and the ambitious project to Germanize Europe. Miller observed Hitler’s neighbors in Bogenhausen with perplexity: 'The attitude of these Germans was odd. They talked quite normally about... that Hitler was a great man with the right ideas, but he had been badly advised and controlled by gangsters.' Considering the widespread goodwill and profound respect for Hitler, Miller’s and Scherman’s action, as a woman and especially as a Jew, can be interpreted as an act of provocation. It was a (successful) attempt to deconstruct the Führer as a (German) identification figure and hereby to undermine his aura at a time when the war had not officially ended. Although Hitler and his wife had just taken their lives, Germany, which lay in ruins, had not yet capitulated. Embedded in that contemporaneous context, the bathtub photographs sent a clear and defiant message to Germany and international society: The Führer is dead. And now we are here."

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Lee Miller

Hatje Cantz

$45.00

Pbk, 8.25 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 70 color.

Pub Date: 8/25/2015 | Not available

U.S. $45.00 CAD $60.00

ISBN 9783775739559

Edited by Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Walter Moser. Text by Anna Hanreich, Astrid Mahler, Elissa Mailänder, Walter Moser, Ute Wrocklage.

Lee Miller (1907-77) began her artistic career in 1929 as a Surrealist photographer in Paris. She produced images, often in collaboration with Man Ray, in which she isolated motifs by means of tight framing and experimental techniques, and in doing so rendered visible a paradoxical reality.

This publication surveys Miller's best works, including early Surrealist compositions as well as travel photos. At the end of World War II, Miller traveled through Europe as a war reporter, producing harrowing photographs of considerable historical significance. One of her most spectacular pictures originated in late April 1945 in Adolf Hitler's city apartment at Prinzregentenplatz in Munich: Lee had a photo taken of herself sitting naked in the dictator's bathtub--not long after having captured on film the crimes committed in the concentration camps in Dachau and Buchenwald immediately after their liberation by the occupying forces (Miller was one of the first photographers to do so).

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STORIES BOOKSImage courtesy of AWHRHWAR.

Thursday, October 12

Agnes Varda: Ulysse, Blum & Poe (Culver City), 10am–6pm.

Talk: Gallery Talk: The Art of Looking—Carlos Almaraz, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 12:30pm.

School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Trey Spruance, CalArts (Valencia), 2–4pm.

Garden Talk & Sale - A Garden of Surprise and Allure, The Huntington (San Marino), 2:30pm.

Latin American Film Series: "Unrest, Distance, and the Future": "Neighboring Sounds", Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.

A Dream within a Dream, MADE by Millworks (Long Beach), 6–9pm. 

Artist and scholar walkthroughs: Elena Shtromberg, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 6pm.

Dougall Paulson: Auraform, Blackman Cruz (Hollywood), 6pm.

Mark So: Readings 54, for Manfred, MOCA Grand Avenue (Downtown), 6pm.

S. LEE ROBINSON: Message and Intention, Keystone Art Space (Lincoln Heights), 6–10pm.

Rotem Reshef: Time Traveler, TALL WALL SPACE | UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE (La Verne), 6–8pm.

Michael Christopher Brown – Cuba After Fidel, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 6:30pm. 

Masks and the Uncanny, in Africa and Beyond, The Getty (Brentwood), 7pm.

Talk: Curator Walkthrough of "A Universal History of Infamy" with José Luis Blondet, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7pm. Sold out.

A Conversation with artist John Rosewall, Gallery 825 (West Hollywood), 7–9pm.

James Benning: Readers World Premiere, MOCA Grand Avenue (Downtown), 7pm.

Writing Now Presents: Chris Kraus, CalArts (Valencia), 7:30–10pm.

EJ Hauser: seekers/beasts, AWHRHWAR (Highland Park), 8–10pm.

Open House Dance Concert, CalArts (Valencia), 8–10pm. Also October 13.

Karen Finley: The Expanded Unicorn Gratitude Mystery, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. Through October 15. 

Friday, October 13

Conference - The Rise of the Newspaper in Europe and America, 1600–1900, The Huntington (San Marino), 8:30am. Also October 14.

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, California African American Museum (Downtown), 10am–5pm. 

Director's Walkthrough, USC FIsher Museum of Art (Downtown), 11:30am–12:30pm.

Skirball After Hours, Skirball Cultural Center (Brentwood), 6–10pm.

Kon Trubkovich: Vigil, Moran Bondaroff (West Hollywood), 6–8pm. 

LAND's Feast of the Immortals, 627 South Carondelet Street (MacArthur Park), 6–11pm.

Pasadena ArtNight, various locations (Pasadena), 6–10pm.

African Masks from June Harwood Collection (Silent auction) and "Sharpener" (Faculty Exhibition), Pasadena City College Art Galleries (Pasadena), 6–10pm.

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Movie Nights at the Museum: Pull of Gravity, Skid Row History Museum and Archive (Downtown), 7pm.

Art Party For Days Of Rage Housing Rights Protests, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7–10pm.

CRAFT CLUB: MINIATURE ISLET TERRARIUM, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 7–8:30pm. $10–15. 

Film: Creepshow, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Art Garfunkel in Conversation, Grand Performances (Downtown), 7:30pm.

Canadian Stage Helen Lawrence, CAP UCLA (Westwood), 8pm. Also October 14.

Cyril Kuhn: The Return of Puppyman, Bozo Mag (Highland Park), 8–11pm.

CalArts Weekend, CalArts (Valencia), all day. $45–80.

Saturday, October 14

Katie Herzog: Rubbing the Internet Archive: Coffee and Donuts with the Artist, Klowden Mann (Culver City), 10am–12pm.

David Lamelas: The Other Side, Maccarone (Downtown), 10am–6pm.

Fernando de Szyszlo, Latin American Masters (Santa Monica), 11am–6pm. 

Family Fun Weekend, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 11am–3pm. 

J. Millay & Jonathan Monk, LEADAPRON (West Hollywood), 12–5pm.  

Santa Fe Art Colony 28th Annual Open Studios, Santa Fe Art Colony (Downtown), 12–6pm. Also October 15. 

Project Management Workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 12–3pm. $24–30.

Aztlán: A Sense of Place, dA Center for the Arts (Pomona), 12–4pm. 

Off the 405 x Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA—Helado Negro, Getty Center (Brentwood), 1–9pm.

SSP Community Council Meeting, Side Street Projects (Pasadena), 1–2pm.

PMCA 1234: Second Saturday Spotlight Talk, Pasaena Museum of California Art (Pasadena), 2pm.

The Insanity Principle, High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree), 2–4pm.

Franklin Williams Artist Walk-through, Parker Gallery (Los Feliz), 3pm.

Gerardo Monterrubio, Craft in America Center (Miracle Mile), 4–6pm.

HUGO CROSTHWAITE: In Memoriam: Los Angeles, MUSEUM OF SOCIAL JUSTICE (Downtown), 4–6pm.

The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Judith F. Baca's Experimentations in Collaboration and Concrete, CSU Northridge Art Galleries (Northridge), 4–7pm.

Kim Dingle: Yipes, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Culver City), 5–7pm.

Kiwis in LA Art Show & Wine Tasting, Santa Monica Art Studios (Santa Monica), 6–10pm.

BEN SLEDSENS: Before the crow crows, NINO MIER GALLERY (West Hollywood), 6–8pm.

DBA, Big Pictures Los Angeles (Mid-City), 6–9:30pm.

CAFAM's Gala & Silent Auction, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 6–9pm. $200. 

Franscesc Ruiz Abad: Copy to Learn, Learn to Copy, The Lodge (East Hollywood), 6–9pm.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS X, Cactus Gallery (Frogtown), 6–9pm. 

Replete Repeat Repeat Replete, DAC Gallery (Downtown), 6–9pm.

Duty of Care, Collective Arts Incubator (Highland Park), 6–8pm.

Art of Science/Science of Art: Frankenstein 200, El Camino College Marsee Auditorium (Torrance), 6–9pm. $5–10.

Closing for The Seer & The Stones, Infinity (West Adams), 7–10pm.

Dcypher, Lucas Raynaud, Hero, and Collin Salazar, Gabba Gallery (Koreatown), 7–11pm.

Sayre Gomez: Déjà Vu, Ghebaly Gallery (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Wanda Koop: In Absentia and Josh Callaghan: Legacy, Night Gallery, 7–10pm.

Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico/Más abajo que el underground: arte renegado y acción en el México de los noventa, Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), 7–9pm.

Wild Beast Concert Series: CalArts Alumni Big Band, CalArts (Valencia), 7:30pm.

Sunday, October 15

L.A. GOAL for the Inside Out Productions Open House & Annual Art Show, L.A. Goal (Culver City), 10am–5pm.

16th annual Art + Design Open Market, One Colorado (Pasadena), 10am–3pm.

California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Art Museum), 11am–5pm. 

Film: Found in Translation Film Program: No Walls, Only Bridges, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Design Your Own Monster Youth Workshop, 356 Mission (Downtown), 1–4pm.

Artist talk: Rotem Reshef: Time Traveler, TALL WALL SPACE | UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE (La Verne), 1–3pm.

Beautiful Parts, CSUN Art Gallery (Northridge), 2–4pm.

Talk & Book Signing - The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, The Huntington (San Marino), 2:30pm.

Red Bull Music Academy Presents: Ryoji Ikeda: A [for 100 cars], 131 South Olive Street (Downtown), 3–7pm. 

In Person: Professor Katherine Manthorne, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 3pm.

Social Media For Artists, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 4–7pm. $48–60.

Beyond Words: Jack Kerouac's On the Road at 60!, Beyond Baroque (Venice), 4:30pm.

Dwayne Moser, Reserve Ames (Mid-City), 5–7pm.

Open workshop: Unbound Recollections: Yair Agmon and Hagar Cygler, American Jewish University (Bel Air), 7pm.

Dr. Victoria Reuveni: Orgasmic Yoga, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 7–10pm. $20.

Here/There, FM Fine Art Gallery (Fairfax).

Monday, October 16

HDTK: California Buckwheat, Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center (Joshua Tree), 7pm.

Wark Lecture - Seeing and Knowing: Visions of Latin American Nature, ca. 1492–1859, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

Double Vision: Recent Films by Janie Geiser, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $6–12.

Tuesday, October 17

Laurel Atwell: Exquisite Corpse, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 10:30am–1:30pm. $20.

Film: Mummy, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

CURATORS IN CONVERSATION: Karen Cordero and Laura Mart, Skirball Cultural Center (Brentwood), 2pm.

Bookmaking Workshop, USC Fisher Museum of Art (Downtown), 5:30–8:30pm.

RE:IN FORCE, MART LA (Hollywood), 6–8pm. 

Suzanne Hudson, USC Roski School of Art (Downtown), 6–8pm.

The "Concrete" in Poetry and Art, The Getty (Brentwood), 7pm.

Screening: Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992 with director John Ridley, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Two Films by Sarah Minter: Nadie es Inocente and San Frenesi, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Talk: Art + Tech: Stan Douglas and Michael Govan in Conversation, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm. Sold out.

Nevins Lecture - Founding Gardeners, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

Chamber Music Concert - Camerata Pacifica, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

Wednesday, October 18

Painting with Nan Rae, The Huntington (San Marino), 11am–3pm. $50.

Tour and Critical Discussion, USC Fisher Museum of Art (Downtown), 2–4pm.

Curator Tour: Visual Voyages, The Huntington (San Marino), 5pm. $15.

FOWLER OUT LOUD: DAEUN JUNG, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 6–7pm.

Artist Talk: Hellen Ascoli | Artist as Mediator, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6pm.

Cosimo Cavallaro: Unidentified Space, Manhattan Beach Art Center (Manhattan Beach), 6–8pm.

A Conversation with David Lamelas, Kristina Newhouse, and Jonathan T.D. Neil, Sprüth Magers (Miracle Mile), 6:30pm.

LECTURE: HEATHER SHIREY ON PIERRE VERGER, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 7–8pm.

Journalism in Mexico: A Deadly Occupation, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Music: Art & Music: Chicano Batman, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm. Sold out. 

Max Maslansky Book Launch, STORIES BOOKS (Echo Park), 7:30pm. 

LMAO: Comedy Show, Fais Do Do (West Adams), 8–11pm.

Ellen Cantor: Pinochet Porn, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $6–12.