The Boondoggle
Lee Miller and the vicissitudes of private archives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12919436 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Engle (0009-0004-4900-398X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-104 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Photographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-0763 • E-ISSN: 1754-0771 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17540763.2014.979510 |
| OpenAlex | W2006875683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper recounts the surprising and disastrous results of attempting to do historical photographic research at a private archive. I had travelled to the Lee Miller Archives, in Sussex, UK, in order to conduct some preliminary research on Miller’s war work between the years 1944 and 1945. My intention was to begin comparing the drafts, original manuscripts, negatives, and captions to what Vogue published in both the US and the UK. The Archives are located in the former house of Lee Miller and husband Roland Penrose and they are managed by Miller’s son Antony Penrose. While my preparatory correspondence with the employees was straightforward and I had submitted lists of what I wanted to look at, once I arrived things immediately changed. This paper details the paternalistic climate of the Archives, as it reads some of Miller’s photography in relation to questions of history and representation
Art · Art history · Miller · Negative · Order (exchange · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Visual arts · History · Law · Photographic and Visual Arts · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Margins of Philosophy
Powers of Horror
Refiguring the Archive
Archive Fever
Words of Light
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
The Post Card
The World Wars through the Female Gaze
The World Wars through the Female Gaze
Lee Miller's photographic impersonations 1930-1945
A different war landscape
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
When the War Was in Vogue
Working in the Archives
Defacement
In Dora's Case
Along the Archival Grain
The Evidence of Experience
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |