The Lee Miller Archives Print Room offers to collectors, museums, and all who are passionate about Lee Miller’s photography, the opportunity to acquire Fine Archival and Platinum Palladium Prints, directly from the Lee Miller Archives.
The Print Room holds a collection of fine archival gelatin silver prints, in edition and non-edition. These were hand-printed after Lee Miller’s lifetime, in the darkroom at Farleys House her Sussex home, by Carole Callow estate fine printer for the Lee Miller Archives. Much research was made into the techniques and darkroom equipment that Lee Miller would have used. Working predominantly with Lee Miller’s original negatives, each image was printed on high-quality fibre-based paper, selenium toned for enhanced permanence, retouched, and hand-finished.
When Callow retired in 2017 the darkroom was closed and printing with gelatin silver ceased. The remaining prints are highly collectible, and offer an endlessly intriguing glimpse through Lee Miller’s eye, of the world, events, and people of the Twentieth Century.
From the 1990s up to the present day, we have also released platinum palladium prints in editions of up to 30, in association with specialist printers 31 Studio – The Platinum Printroom.
All of our fine archival prints are authenticated, certified, and blind stamped. Prices start at £2,910.00 for non-editioned Fine Archival Gelatin Silver Prints and £4,000.00 for editioned Platinum Palladium Prints.
Fine Archival Prints of the work of Roland Penrose and the private work of David E. Scherman are also available.
Box set, edition of 10
An editioned, retrospective boxed set of 6 images: curated by Mark Haworth-Booth and hand-printed by Carole Callow, Estate Fine Printer for the Lee Miller Archives, in 2007, to mark the centenary of Lee Miller’s birth and our ‘Art of Lee Miller’ exhibition at the V&A.Each box contains a hand-printed curator’s essay and the following images:
The edition is of 10, plus 2 hors d’edition.
The next available is 5/10.
£19,800 (incl. vat) plus shipping and import taxes if applicable.
Portraiture is the only form of photography that Lee Miller continued to practice until the end of her life. Many of the portraits were intended for Vogue magazine and others were shot in anticipation of press use to promote exhibitions often curated by Roland Penrose at the ICA, London. Some were simply an expression of the friendship that existed among this group of people.
Non-editioned Gelatin Silver Prints, hand printed by estate printer Carole Callow. Platinum palladium prints hand printed by 31 Studio the Platinum Printroom.
Lee Miller’s photography of British fashion for Vogue during World War 2 was prolific yet few are aware of the full extent of this body of her work.
‘she [Lee Miller] has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue’s [British Vogue’s] history’.
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During WWII lee Miller worked for Vogue magazine as an accredited war correspondent attached to the US Army. In Britain she covered the destruction caused by the Blitz in London, its effect on civilians, and the many roles taken on by women for the war effort. Miller’s pictures were published in ‘Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain under fire’, (published by Lund Humphries/War Office). The book was re-named ‘Bloody but Unbowed: Pictures of Britain under Fire’, (Published by Scribners), to be sent to America as propaganda.
Lee Miller’s first assignment in Europe was to document the field hospitals behind the beaches in Normandy. She then followed the US Army through Europe, witnessing front line combat and many major events, including the Liberation of Paris and of the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald.
Editioned Prints
Hand Printed in association with the Lee Miller Archives by 31 Studio/The Platinum Print room; foremost specialist printers for Platinum and Platinum Palladium in the UK.
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Not always; historically when non-editioned prints were made for special orders, or for specific exhibitions, an extra print or maybe several prints might have been made. These prints are not numbered as in editions.
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Lee Miller Archives Farleys House and Gallery, Muddles Green, Chiddingly, East Sussex, BN8 6HW, EnglandTel: +44 (0) 1825 872691 |