Jim Lee (born 20 November 1945) is a London-based photographer and film director. A fashion photographer for magazines during the late sixties and seventies, he worked closely with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in London and New York on fashion and advertising shoots. He switched to film directing in the late seventies, creating hundreds of television commercials as well as working on several full-length feature films. His earlier photographs form part of the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, with additional photographs in the archives of The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow. A book of his life’s work entitled Jim Lee / Arrested was launched in May 2012 alongside an exhibition of photographs from the book at Somerset House, London. Lee’s work is regularly exhibited at art galleries around the world, and he continues to collaborate on imaginative campaigns, in addition to developing his own creative projects. In September 2015, Lee’s autobiographical book LIFE IN B&W was released by Quartet at the Groucho Club in London. In 2016, Lee was a speaker at the Oxford Literary Festival, where he was also interviewed by writer Paul Blezard. In October 2018, Lee’s latest book, The BOX, was published by The Box Book Company. In 2019, Lee published My BOX, a version of The BOX for children between the ages of 8-15 years.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 1.1 Jim Lee's X-Men Artist's Edition (Artist Edition)
- 1.2 X-Men XXL by Jim Lee (Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011))
- 1.3 X-Men By Chris Claremont & Jim Lee Omnibus Vol. 2 HC
- 1.4 HEX Jim Lee Collectors Backpack, Designed With Jim Lee of DC Comics, Comic Carrying Pockets, Poster Tube Holder, & More
- 1.5 DC Poster Portfolio: Jim Lee Vol. 2
- 1.6 Icons: The DC Comics and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee
- 1.7 X-Men: Mutant Genesis (X-Men (1991-2001))
- 1.8 Justice League Unwrapped by Jim Lee (JLA (Justice League of America))
- 1.9 Stan Lee's Mighty 7
- 1.10 Heroes Reborn: Fantastic Four (Fantastic Four (1996-1997))
Early life
Lee was born in London in 1945; his parents were both operatives in MI5. Due to a concentration of dyslexia and a strong sense of independence, Lee did not follow the conventional family route through Eton and Cambridge, instead attending the experimental Down House School in Sussex, leaving at 16.
Denied a visa to the US on age grounds, Lee emigrated to Australia below the assisted path Ten Pound Poms Plan in 1962. After traveling with reference to the outback for a year, he approved in Sydney, where the Dutch-born photographer Jon van Gaalen provided him past board and lodging in compensation for his instruction with developing negatives. This connection helped to spark Lee’s own captivation in photography, and he began full of zip as a freelance photojournalist, covering performances by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, with his fake appearing regularly in the Sydney Morning Herald. At the age of 18 he had a shot of his then girlfriend, the Australian fashion model Bronwyn Steven-Jones, published in Australian Vogue.
Last update 2021-08-06