![]() Soon after, Miller left home at 19 to enroll in the Art Students League of New York in Manhattan to study life drawing and painting. She returned to New York in 1926 and joined an experimental drama programme at Vassar College, taught by Hallie Flanagan, a pioneer of "experimental theatre". In 1925, at 18, Miller moved to Paris where she studied lighting, costume, and design at the Ladislas Medgyes' School of Stagecraft. In her childhood, Miller experienced issues in her formal education, being expelled from almost every school she attended while living in the Poughkeepsie area. When she was seven years old, Lee was raped while staying with a family friend in Brooklyn and was infected with gonorrhea. Theodore always favored Lee, and often used her as a model for his amateur photography. She had a younger brother named Erik, and her older brother was the aviator Johnny Miller. Her father was of German descent, and her mother was of Scottish and Irish descent. Her parents were Theodore and Florence Miller (née MacDonald). Miller was born on April 23, 1907, in Poughkeepsie, New York. During the Second World War, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. ![]() ![]() She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth " Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. ![]()
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