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Peter Miller
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When he was a young man living in Vermont, someone stole Peter's gun. With the money his mother gave him to replace the gun, Peter bought a camera. Soon he was shooting the sights in his life--people, animals, landscapes, buildings--and honing his skills as a photographer. As a student at the University of Toronto, Peter met the renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh. Impressed with Peter's skills, Karsh asked Peter to assist him in photographing the celebrities of Europe.
After graduating from college, Peter joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a photographer. He was assigned to Paris, where, while on duty, he took official photographs of dignitaries and important people shaking hands, signing documents and otherwise partaking of official functions. On his own time, Peter prowled the streets of Paris. Using the skills he developed while hunting in Vermont, he shot his subjects without disturbing them. After leaving the Army, Peter worked in New York City where he was a writer and photographer for Life magazine.
Some of the hundreds of photographs Peter took in Paris in the 1950s will be published this fall in The First Time I Saw Paris. The book will be introduced at a galary reception in New York November 1st, and signed copies will be available from this site shortly thereafter.
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Peter Miller explains in The First Time I Saw Paris his improbable beginnings in photography: how an insurance check meant to replace some stolen hunting rifles helped him buy his first camera and led to a lifelong career in photography. This purchase initiated an education in picture-making that brought him to Paris in the 1950's, just as the city was emerging from its long postwar gloom.
The First Time I Saw Paris is the visual and literary record of that journey of youthful discovery. Here are striking images: young musicians jamming on the Rue de la Huchette in the Latin Quarter, while jitterbuggers swing nearby; blind Miss Kick, who told fortunes on Rue Mouffetard, only steps from Hemingway's former digs in Place de la Contrescarpe; and secret lovers trysting in le bois.
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Award-winning photographer and writer Peter Miller has meandered through the Plains, traveling more than 30,000 miles over the last three years. The result is this elegant documentary of a surviving frontier and those who have settled there. Miller's broad panoramics of the landscape weave with insightful portaits of the people to present a part of America intrinsic to our national culture and heritage. People of the Great Plains is a beautiful book that complements Miller's first effort in documenting rural Americans, Vermont People.
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In the niney-three years Joe has lived on the farm that his father farmed before him, he has seen the most change in the last ten years. "New people come in and with them come high taxes. Most of them go to Town Meeting and know how to change things, so they run the town. I can't understand them. They buy a place in good condition and tear out every partition and pretty near wreck it, and then start over and build it again. God but I guess they need to spend money."
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