Richard C. Miller

Richard C. Miller covered the entertainment industry as a freelancer, photographing the making of more than 70 movies over the course of his career. He is best known for his skill in using the Carbro printing process, and his photographs of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. Over the course of his career, his work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Time, LIFE, American Weekly and Colliers among others. In 2009, The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles hosted an exhibition of his work and retained some pieces in their permanent collection.

Richard C. Miller

Title: Brett Weston

Date: 1947

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 4 x w 5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: West on Wilshire

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Richard C. Miller

Title: Richard C. Miller (Self Portrait) with Brett Weston at the Ocean

Date: 1947

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Print

Size: h 3.75 x w 4 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Joanne Cutten

Date: 1948-1952

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 5 x w 4 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Marian Hall

Date: 1948 - 1952

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 4 x w 3.5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Woman with Pearls Smoking

Date: 1948-1952

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 5 x w 4 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Building of the Hollywood Freeway

Date: 1948-1952

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 8 x w 5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Edward Weston

Date: 1947

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 6.75 x w 4.5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Building of the Hollywood Freeway

Date: 1948-1952

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 8 x w 5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Smoking Model May in Tropical Dress, lei, Mink Stole, Resting

Date: 1941

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 17 x w 11 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Ursula McGowen; White Hat Blue Teacup

Date: 1941

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 14 x w 11 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Mary Lou Daves, White Satin Gown

Date: 1940

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 13.2 x w 10.3 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Nude Ballerina, Ingaborg Zerbe and Peter Gowland

Date: 1944

Medium: Dye Transfer Print

Size: h 4.2 x w 3.3 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Linda Miller Blowing Bubbles

Date: Circa 1942

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 14.5 x w 11.5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Elyse Knox Weighing Peggy Miller

Date: 1948

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 15.5 x w 13.5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Surprise Surprise

Date: 1948

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 13.5 x w 11.25 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Lone Tree

Date: Circa 1940

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 13.2 x w 10.3 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Self Portrait

Date: 1940

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 9.5 x w 7.5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Red Head

Date: Circa 1940

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 9 x w 7.5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Plant & Vase

Date: Circa 1940

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 9.5 x w 6.5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Nude in Dunes, Helen Dow

Date: 1946

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 10.5 x w 13 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Leaving Town

Date: 1941

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 10 x w 13 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Ursula McGowen, Eating a Donut

Date: 1940

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 14 x w 11 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Rickie Van Deusen

Date: 1946

Medium: Gaspar Print

Size: h 5 x w 4 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Norman Jean Doherty (Marilyn Monroe) as Bride with Prayer Book

Date: 1946

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 15 x w 11 in

 

Richard C. Miller

Title: Dick (Richard Miller) and Norma Jean Doherty (Marilyn Monroe)

Date: 1946

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Richard C. Miller

Title: Dorothy Weston Stanton , Smoking

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

 

Richard C. Miller

Title: Carol Dudley

Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Richard C. Miller

Title: James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor Sneak Off to the Fair while Filming ‘Giant’

Date: 1955 / 2009

Medium: Recent Archival Pigment Print

Size: h 20 x w 24 in

Edition of 24

Richard C. Miller

Title: James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor on Break while Filming ‘Giant’

Date: 1955/ 2009

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Size: h 20 x w 24 in

Edition of 24

 

Richard C. Miller

Title: James Dean Getting Made Up on the Set of Giant

Date: 1955/ 2009

Medium: Recent Archival Pigment Print

Size: h 20 x w 24 in

Edition of 24

Richard C. Miller

Title: Norma Jean Doherty (Marilyn Monroe) with Puppy

Date: 1946 / 2009

Medium: Recent Archival Pigment Print

Size: h 22 x w 17 in

Part of the Norma Jean, 12 image portfolio, prints are individually signed and housed in a clamshell box

Richard C. Miller

Title: Norma Jean Doherty (Marilyn Monroe) in the Surf

Date: 1946 / 2009

Medium: Recent Archival Pigment Print

Size: h 22 x w 17 in

Part of the Norma Jean, 12 image portfolio, prints are individually signed and housed in a clamshell box

Richard C. Miller

Title: Norma Jean Doherty (Marilyn Monroe) with Fishing Pole

Date: 1946 / 2009

Medium: Recent Archival Pigment Print

Size: h 22 x w 17 in

Part of the Norma Jean, 12 image portfolio, prints are individually signed and housed in a clamshell box

Richard C. Miller

Title: Tuesday Weld

Date: 1959

Medium: Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 13.75 x w 10.75 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Stanley Kubrick

Date: 1949

Medium: Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 14 x w 10.75 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Model Smiling

Date: 1949

Medium: Gaspar Print

Size: h 4.75 x w 4 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Some Like It Hot

Date: 1958

Medium: Solarcolor Cibachrome Opportunity

Size: h 8 x w 11.75 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: James Dean Resting on the Set of ‘ Giant’

Date: 1955

Medium: Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 10.75 x w 13.5 in

 

Richard C. Miller

Title: Brett Weston

Date: 1952

Medium: Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 11 x w 14 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder on the set of ‘The Apartment’

Date: 1959

Medium: Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 7.5 x w 9.5 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Edward Weston Napping

Date: 1952

Medium: Gelatin Silver Print

Size: h 10.5 x w 13.75 in

Richard C. Miller

Title: Norma Jean Doherty (Marilyn Monroe) Yellow Bikini

Date: 1946

Medium: Carbro Print

Size: h 13.2 x w 10.3 in