Editing Lee Miller (section)

===Modeling===
Miller's father introduced her and her brothers to photography at an early age. She was his model – he took many [[stereoscope|stereoscopic photographs]] of his nude teenage daughter – and showed her technical aspects of the art.<ref name="prose">{{cite book |title=The Lives of the Muses |author=Prose, Francine |publisher=[[Harper Perennial]] |year=2002 |isbn=0-06-019672-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/livesofmuses00pros |author-link=Francine Prose}}</ref> At 19 she nearly stepped in front of a car on a Manhattan street but was prevented by [[Condé Montrose Nast|Condé Nast]], the publisher of [[Vogue (magazine)|''Vogue'']].<ref name="2007-09-08 Guardian" /> This incident helped launch her modeling career; she appeared in a blue hat and pearls in a drawing by George Lepape on the cover of ''Vogue'' on March 15, 1927. Miller's look was what ''Vogue''{{'s}} then editor-in-chief [[Edna Woolman Chase]] was looking for to represent the emerging idea of the "modern girl."<ref name="ErinC">{{cite web|last=Cunningham |first=Erin |title=The Lesser-Known Lee Miller|type=From the Archives |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-lesser-known-lee-miller/ |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |date=October 7, 2013 |access-date=November 18, 2024}}</ref>

For the next two years, Miller was one of the most sought-after models in New York, photographed by leading fashion photographers, including [[Edward Steichen]], [[Arnold Genthe]], [[Nickolas Muray]], and [[George Hoyningen-Huene]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lee Miller: Portraits|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/about/press/lee-miller-portraits.php?searched=tim+smit&advsearch=allwords&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1+ajaxSearch_highlight2|publisher=[[National Portrait Gallery, London]]|access-date=June 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802102104/https://www.npg.org.uk/about/press/lee-miller-portraits.php?searched=tim+smit&advsearch=allwords&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1+ajaxSearch_highlight2|archive-date=August 2, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Kotex]] used a photograph of Miller by Steichen to advertise their menstrual pads<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mum.org/lemiller.htm|author=Harry Finley|title=Photographer Lee Miller and Kotex menstrual pads|website=Famous People in Advertising|year=1999|access-date=March 4, 2020|archive-date=December 3, 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981203020728/http://www.mum.org/lemiller.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> without her knowledge.<ref name="NPR2011">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/08/20/139766533/much-more-than-a-muse-lee-miller-and-man-ray|title=Much More Than A Muse: Lee Miller And Man Ray|author=npr Staff|date=August 20, 2011|website=npr|access-date=March 4, 2020|archive-date=August 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821032658/https://www.npr.org/2011/08/20/139766533/much-more-than-a-muse-lee-miller-and-man-ray|url-status=live}}</ref> She was hired by a fashion designer in 1929 to make drawings of fashion details in [[Renaissance art|Renaissance paintings]] but, in time, grew tired of this and found photography more efficient.<ref name="ErinC" />