Antony Penrose

Antony Penrose ( born September 9, 1947 in London) is an English writer, photographer, curator, administrator and the Lee Miller archive and Roland Penrose Collection of his parents. In her previous residence, the Farley Farm House in Chiddingly, East Sussex, was created under his leadership a museum with an attached gallery.

Life and work

Penrose is the son of the American photographer Lee Miller and the English surrealist painter and poet Roland Penrose, of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, co-founded in 1947 and, among other biographer of Man Ray, Pablo Picasso and Antoni Tàpies was. Early on, he began, influenced by his mother to photograph. Antony Penrose dealt first with agriculture. From 1997 he began to sift through the estate of his mother who died in 1977, he discovered in the attic of the family house, the Farley Farm House in East Sussex. The Fund, consisting of approximately 60,000 negatives, prints and manuscripts became the basis of the Lee Miller Archives. Penrose then published several monographs on his parents, especially about Lee Miller, by first moved their photographic work into the public interest. Lee Miller Archives and the Penrose Collection are kept in Farley Farm House. At the same time it is under Penrose ' line museum and gallery.

Antony Penrose has written numerous books, articles, and two stage plays about his parents and their contemporaries. In his 2010 children's book The Boy Who Bit Picasso (Eng. The boy who Picasso bit ), the photographs Lee Miller and Picasso's work contains, he tells the story how he as a young boy during a visit to Picasso's 1950 in his parents' home to artists bit of this and was bitten again.

Pictures of Antony Penrose

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