![]() ![]() In 1932, she was given a leading role in Jean Cocteau’s film The Blood of a Poet. The gravure-printed portfolio included ten “rayographs” and is now considered one of the most emblematic surrealist works. In 1931, she and Man Ray worked together on the advertisement brochure Électricité commissioned by the Compagnie parisienne de distribution d’électricité. During this time, she also taught herself photographic and lighting techniques. She posed for his commissioned works and his photographic experiments with solarisations, “rayographs”, tilted frames, and lighting effects. ![]() Upon returning to Paris in 1929, she became the assistant to the American photographer Man Ray. After spending a few months in Paris in 1925 to further her artistic and cultural education, she studied painting and draughtsmanship in New York, where she started working as a model for Vogue. Born into a wealthy family, Elizabeth Miller, known as Lee, learnt photography from her father. ![]()
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