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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 19 – Bonus episode – And they all lived happily ever after?
In this episode we find out what happened next to the characters in Roland and Lee's love letters as the series comes to an end.
This series explores the 300 pages of love letters written between the iconic photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose during their courtship. Starting just a few days after they first met in June 1937 at a fancy dress party in Paris, the letters continue for 2 years charting their love, their friends such as Man Ray, Picasso, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Nusch and Paul Eluard, their adventures, the build up of world war II, some scandals and a lot of fun.
Subscribe to support the Lee Miller Archives and Farleys and listen to other podcast series featuring Lee Miller’s writing: www.patreon.com/leemillerarchives
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 18 – All my love to you
In this episode Roland and Lee's love letters draw to an end, and the outbreak of war nears, but what will they decide to do?
'Darling, I’m drinking quantities of gin and lime, mad with rage because you haven’t answered my wire about Man and I wanted so much to see him. I feel like getting off here and going across France but I can’t afford it.....'.' wrote Lee Miller to Roland Penrose, London 7th June 1939
This series explores the 300 pages of love letters written between the iconic photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose during their courtship. Starting just a few days after they first met in June 1937 at a fancy dress party in Paris, the letters continue for 2 years charting their love, their friends such as Man Ray, Picasso, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Nusch and Paul Eluard, their adventures, the build up of world war II, some scandals and a lot of fun.
Subscribe to support the Lee Miller Archives and Farleys and listen to other podcast series featuring Lee Miller’s writing: www.patreon.com/leemillerarchives
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 17 – Marco Polo
In this episode Roland and Lee's adventures in Egypt together end and again they become separated by oceans... but is their future together more certain?
'I have no news only the old guess what? To which you know the answer. I miss you more that ever, the Siwa trip was the final proof to me that I love you insatiably – every moment was superb and every moment since I left you on the quay intolerable.' wrote Roland Penrose aboard the Marco Polo to Lee Miller, Cairo 19th March 1939
This series explores the 300 pages of love letters written between the iconic photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose during their courtship. Starting just a few days after they first met in June 1937 at a fancy dress party in Paris, the letters continue for 2 years charting their love, their friends such as Man Ray, Picasso, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Nusch and Paul Eluard, their adventures, the build up of world war II, some scandals and a lot of fun.
Subscribe to support the Lee Miller Archives and Farleys and listen to other podcast series featuring Lee Miller’s writing: www.patreon.com/leemillerarchives
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 16 – Art and Liberty
In this episode Lee forges stronger links with an important surrealist group in Cairo and she finds out that Roland will visit her in Egypt.
' Darling, I’ve delayed writing, and now I’m afraid that it will not reach you in time - - - it goes without saying, that I’m absolutely thrilled about your arrival --- it couldn’t be better arranged that you come with folklore intentions and to join that English woman - - - - as if you want to, it will give me endless opportunities to be with you if you want me to be, of course and if she is agreeable to the idea. ' Lee Miller wrote to Roland Penrose in London, 23-27th January 1939
This series explores the 300 pages of love letters written between the iconic photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose during their courtship. Starting just a few days after they first met in June 1937 at a fancy dress party in Paris, the letters continue for 2 years charting their love, their friends such as Man Ray, Picasso, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Nusch and Paul Eluard, their adventures, the build up of world war II, some scandals and a lot of fun.
Subscribe to support the Lee Miller Archives and Farleys and listen to other podcast series featuring Lee Miller’s writing: www.patreon.com/leemillerarchives
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 15 - It seems Mad that we should not be together
In this episode Lee is still travelling whilst Roland is now back in London touring Picasso's Guernica painting around the UK.
'I took some quite startling pictures in Syria - - - -Palmyra, Balbeck - - - Djerash - - - Krack - - -Sergiopolis - - - the Euphrates and the Tigris - - - to say nothing of Homs, Hama, Alep, Damascus - - - Antioch and all the great empty spaces - - - but as usual I’m too indolent to do anything about them . . . . and they are stuck away, un-filed like my Romanian and Greek pictures. Altho I bought an enlarger, I don’t think that I’ll ever get around to using it.' Lee Miller wrote to Roland Penrose in London, 6th January 1939
This series explores the 300 pages of love letters written between the iconic photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose during their courtship. Starting just a few days after they first met in June 1937 at a fancy dress party in Paris, the letters continue for 2 years charting their love, their friends such as Man Ray, Picasso, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Nusch and Paul Eluard, their adventures, the build up of world war II, some scandals and a lot of fun.
Subscribe to listen to other podcast series featuring Lee Miller’s writing: www.patreon.com/leemillerarchives
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 14. He doesn't want to divorce me
In this episode Lee Miller writes from Athens telling Roland about her travels in Romania and of the conversation with her husband Aziz about parting. The tensions in the build up to the war have Roland becoming anxious for Lee safety particularly as her letters are not getting to him.
'Aziz and I had long conversations about you and my situation in general. The result is that I’m going on this trip then come back and see what everything is about . . . . He doesn’t want to divorce me unless he is sure that I’m going to be happy and taken care of elsewhere - - - - I told him that I’d had enough of marriage for the moment ....' wrote Lee Miller in Athens to Roland Penrose in England 18th October 1938
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 13. Wish you weren't so far off
In this episode Roland Penrose has had to leave Lee Miller early from their adventures in the Balkans to return to Paris and meet with Picasso. Lee Miller contiues her travels in Romania with Hari Brauner and Lena Constante. In the meantime world events move closer to the outbreak of war.
'Things in Europe seem to be going from bad to worse and I think a certain country is bent of making trouble and that nothing will stop them until there is a general bust up. I think you ought to leave Romania at once, it is certain to be one of the first countries to be drawn into the soup, and I wouldn’t advise coming out by the Orient Express which crosses too much dangerous country – better by Italy, Yugoslavia and Switzerland unless of course you take a plane or come round by sea.' letter extract, Roland Penrose 9th September 1938
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 12. The Road is Wider than Long
This episode features the journey that Lee Miller and Roland Penrose took through the Balkans in the summer of 1938. Inspired by their time together, Roland on his return to England wrote a poem called The Road is Wider Than Long. He then illustrated it with his photographs from the trip and formed what is today recognised as the first British Surrealist photo book. The poem is featured here in its entirety, however, as a Surrealist work it can be a little tricky to unpack what is going on so we have included the thoughts of Antony Penrose and more information on their travels.
'The road is wider than long, trees thicker than tall, wells reach to the clouds, their blood is more solid than their bones.' Roland Penrose 1938
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 11. Everybody is Getting Jittery
In this episode Lee is on her travelling adventures again with visits to Transjordania, Palestine, Mount Sinai in Egypt and Petra, Jordan. Roland passionate about what was happening in the Spanish Civil war marches in the May Day protest against Chamberlain's lack of action against Franco's fascist regime.
'Everybody is getting jittery about politics, newspapers never appear without announcing some new horror, and no one knows where the disease will break out next. The news from Spain is worse and worse, the places I visited the autumn before last are all being smashed to bits. I remember Lerida particularly well, where we were admirably entertained by the old colonel who is now putting up such a gallant defence – I can’t believe its over yet all the same, those people can stand up to a lot.' wrote Roland Penrose 2nd April 1938
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 10. The Picasso Portrait
In this episode Roland is anxious because he is not getting any letters from Lee, whereas Lee in Egypt has just recieved delivery of the portrait Picasso painted of her that Roland had bought and sent to her, so throws a party to celebrate and share it.
'My cocktail party was a tremendous success and so much conversation and criticism was started by it, that I was cursing Picasso and all the pictures ever painted. Two or three people even thought I showed it as a deliberate insult to them and everyone and were convinced that it was all tongue in the cheek. You must remember that there are really people here who have never seen or heard of modern pictures, and that they seem to be quite normal people otherwise - - - - except for occasions like this you’d never notice that they had never thought in their lives.' wrote Lee Miller 9th March 1938
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 9. Sister of All the Serpents
In this episode Lee Miller writes to Roland about becoming the Sister of all serpents in the Egyptian desert whilst Roland Penrose attends the opening of the Surrealist Objects and Poem exhibition in Paris.
'I have a perfect passion for snakes anyway, tho I’ve also been at the same time terrified of being bitten - as you’ll remember every time I had to get out to pee in the midi, they are wonderful to touch, and clean like jewels, sparking and tender to touch. The vipers have wonderful eyes, but wiggle a lot and won’t get obedient, but the cobras are gentle and come when you call them and put their head right in your hand. Guy took a lot of pictures which I’ve ordered for you too . . . ' Lee Miller 7th January 1938
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Episode 8. Suez Canal:
In this episode Lee Miller in Egypt and Roland Penrose in England celebrate Christmas and the new year in very different ways...
'I’m happy again beyond words at finding two letters from you on my table this afternoon when I got back from Cornwall, one which you wrote on Xmas night has come with such speed that it almost made up for the endless weeks that I have waited and again what marvellous letters! I have read them through twice already chuckling over your adventures and greatly moved by your descriptions particularly of the Sinai fishing trip.' Roland Penrose, 29th December 1937
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'
Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
In this episode the Surrealist Objects and Poems exhibition which included the works Lee Miller and Roland had been collaborating on opens. Lee in Egypt is feeling isolated from the art world.
'It’s nice that you think of and save me from isolation from that particular world - - - so far my contacts with people in Egypt are most unproductive, the only person who knows or cares about any of the pictures and people in which I am concerned and interested in is Robin Fedden --- other than Aziz, who just doesn’t care, and the customs examiner who knows them all by heart' wrote Lee Miller, Cairo, Egypt 23rd November 1937
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane reads and shares love letters from her grandmother, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
In this episode Lee and Roland collaborate further on Lee's Surrealist object for the International Surrealist Objects and Poems exhibition and Lee is back travelling in Egypt, visiting Wadi Natrum.
'I must tell you about your object – to begin with there are no wax hands of the right type in London. I found that after visiting a dozen or more shops, so I bought a wood one which has a really good shape and I painted it with the greatest care inspired by your hands which I can still see with some accuracy, but that was only half the job. The second hunt was for the teeth – finally after several false trails I found two old men, in white coats sitting in an attic making the most rosy pearly false jaws I’ve ever seen....' Roland Penrose, Hampstead – Sunday 21st November 1937
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane shares the love letters from her grandmother, held in the Lee Miller's Archives, conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller.
In this episode Roland tells Lee about what he hears is happening in Spain and Lee asks Roland to make a Surrealist Object for her to exhibit in the Surrealist Objects exhibition in London.
‘You ask about Spain – the agony of those wretched people increases daily. It is not only your military and diplomatic friends that are so blind and cowardly, the government does nothing effective either to stop the Italian intervention or rescue of the refugees from northern Spain where they are being massacred according to the most authentic accounts – men, women, children, priests and anyone who disagrees with Franco.’ Wrote Roland 1st November 1937
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'Darling my love,
It’s three weeks today since that worst of all partings – three weeks less until I shall see you again. Your letter arrived this morning making me very happy and very miserable – miserable, because it is so little a letter when one wants you and because you don’t seem to be happy either – all that makes it more and more intolerable and absurd.' writes Roland on the 25th October 1937
In this episode Roland speaks of the artists and work he is doing in London and they both discuss some of the political situation at the time.
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and Presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
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In this episode of Love Letters Bound in Gold Handcuffs Lee Miller takes a trip to the desert Oasis of Siwa, a journey that inspired some of her most famous Surrealist images.
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and Presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Series Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
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'Darling my love, I think of you all the time – day after day getting further from me back into your Egyptian world. Man’s photo of your lips disappearing into the Mediterranean is horribly symbolic but I haven’t even got your legs to console me – just paper objects and memories which I look over time and again thinking of the incredible happiness I have had and which I hope to have again.' wrote Roland from Hampstead, London to Lee Miller, on the 9th October 1937.
The two lovers had spent a wonderful summer together and now find themselves going back to their old lives.
Roland is not getting letters from Lee and wonders if she has already forgotten him.
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and Presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane reads and shares love letters from her grandmother Lee Miller, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and Presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane reads and shares love letters from her grandmother, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.
Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).
Lee Miller's letters read and presented by Ami Bouhassane
Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson
Music composed by David Cullen
Producer: Tolly Robinson
All content © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
