Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: Love Letters Bound in Gold Handcuffs
by Lee Miller Archives
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<p>Ami Bouhassane, grand-daughter of photographer Lee Miller and Surrealist artist Roland Penrose presents, reads and shares their love letters, with guest speakers that contextualise the letters' content.</p><br><p>In the pre-digital age, before email and cell/mobiile phones, letters carried an importance that few who were not part of those times will understand.</p><br><p>The words on the pages of a love letter carry the nuances and emotions of love and desire, passion and anger in a deeply confidential way.</p><p>The urgency and the intimacy of the writers can be clearly felt in this collection of letters between Lee Miller, Photographer, and Roland Penrose, Surrealist Artist as they conduct their long-distance romance.</p><br><p>It begins with their meeting in Paris in 1937 and runs to 1939 when Lee Miller left her Egyptian husband Aziz Eloui Bey in Cairo and joined Roland Penrose in London at the start of World War 2. In this real-life romantic drama, the period and their connecti