Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
born 5 July 1889 Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines , France
died 11 October 1963 Milly ,
France
French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and film maker.
“Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of
the this century, a true renaissance man - he was a novelist, playwright,
director, poet, essayist, painter, set designer, and actor. Cocteau was active
in a great many art movements, but he always remained an individual apart and a
poet at heart, both literally and in his attitude as reflected in the life that
he lived and that within his work. He is now regarded as one of the most
important avant-garde film directors.”
see also jeancocteau.com
Lee Miller
born April 23, 1907 Poughkeepsie ,
New York USA
died July 21, 1977 Farley Farm House, Muddles Green, East
Sussex, England
American photographer
“Lee Miller first entered the world of photography in New York as a model to
the great photographers of the day such as Edward Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene and
Arnold Genthe.
In 1929 she went to Paris and worked with the well known
Surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray, and succeeded in establishing her
own studio. She became known as a portraitist and fashion photographer, but her
most enduring body of work is that of her Surrealist images.”
