Majas nro.37 - Lee Miller
Lee’s upbringing and a progressive family legacy
At about age seven, Lee visited family friends in New York City. While there, she was sexually assaulted and contracted syphilis. She had to undergo painful, caustic lavage treatments for years, and her doctor and family attempted to put the event in the context that sexual contact is not what love is about.
In 1915, when Lee was eight, her father, Theodore, photographed her in the nude standing in the snow and called the shot “December Morn” as a take-off of the popular 1911 painting “September Morn” by Paul Emile Chabas depicting a young nude woman standing in the shallow water of a lake.
Writers have noted that it appeared odd that Lee’s father would pose his sexually abused daughter as an innocent nymph just a year after the traumatic event. He was and had been regularly taking nude photographs of her even before the incident. This practice continued throughout Lee’s adolescence and young adulthood. There are comments that his behavior was abhorrent. However, there may be a very different and positive side to this particular behavior.
Lee was born in 1907. Theodore enjoyed taking stereopticon photographs like the two below, where, if you focus your eyes between the images so they overlap, they then form a 3D result. Typically, there were viewers with lens to assist with this, but with practice you can see these very nicely off a printed page.
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