Peter Mitchell Miller
20 Crossroad
Colbyville, Vermont 05676

Tel. 802.244.5339. Fax: 802.244.6813
Email: Peter@silverprintpress.com
Website: www.silverprintpress.com

Photographer and Writer. Publisher of Silver Print Press, Colbyville, Vt. See at the bottom of this bio the Vermont State Legislature proclamation honoring Peter Miller for his Vermont books.

Born:

Jan 6, 1934, New York City

Military:

U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographer, Paris, France.

Employment:

Photographer’s assistant, Yousuf Karsh, 1958
LIFE Magazine reporter-writer, 1959-1964
Contributing Editor, SKI Magazine, 1965--1988
Freelance photographer/writer, author, publisher, 1988-Present

Writer/photographer of magazine articles: Americas, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Ski, Snow Country, Field and Stream, Travel & Leisure, Gray's Sporting Journal, most inflight magazines, many foreign publications.

Author of eight books:

The 30,000 Mile Ski Race (Dial Press) 1973
The Skier's Almanac (Nick Lyons Press and Doubleday) 1980
The Photographer's Almanac (Little, Brown. Co-author) 1982
People of the Great Plains (Silver Print Press) 1996
The First Time I Saw Paris (Times Books/Random House) Fall, 1999.
(The French Edition, Paris Perdu et Retrouvé, Photographies et souvenirs de la Ville Lumière, was published in March, 2001 by Éditions du Rocher, Paris, France)
Vermont Farm Women (Silver Print Press) 2002
Vermont People (revised edition, seventh printing) 2003
Vermont Gathering Places (Silver Print Press) 2005

One-man photo exhibitions:

Todd Gallery, Weston, Vermont
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts.
Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Oklahoma.
Love Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington, Vermont
Mist Grill, Waterbury, Vermont
Leica Gallery, New York City
Vermont Fine Arts Gallery, Stowe, Vermont
Leica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Awards:

1994: Lifetime Achievement in Journalism awarded by the International Association of Ski History

1995: The Image Bank Award for Visual Excellence for the book project, People of the Great Plains.

1996: Two gold, one silver Ben Franklin awards: book design, photography/art book of the year: People of the Great Plains.

2003: Vermont Book Professionals Association: Book of the Year for Vermont Farm Women

2003: Publishers Marketing Association: Book of the Year (Agriculture) for Vermont Farm Women

2003: Independent Publisher Award: Book of the Year (Women's Issues) for Vermont Farm Women

2006: Editorial staff of The Burlington Free Press and the Vermont State Legislature named  Peter Miller  Vermonter of the Year for his written/visual documentation of Vermont's rural culture.

Grants:

The Countryside Institute for People of the Great Plains

Vermont Arts Council for Vermont Farm Women

 Freeman Foundation for Vermont Farm Women

Cabot Creamery for Vermont Farm Women

Vermont Arts Council for Vermont Gathering Places

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Below is the text of  the 2006 State of Vermont House Resolution honoring Peter Miller for his books Vermont People, Vermont Farm Women and Vermont Gathering Places.

H.C. R-372.  House concurrent resolution congratulating Peter Miller of Colbyville on his being named the Burlington Free Press’s Vermonter of the Year.

(H.C.R.244)

Offered by:  Representatives Minter of Waterbury, Dostis of Waterbury and Obuchowski of Rockingham

Offered by:  Senators Cummings, Doyle, Scott and Dunne

Whereas, Peter Miller developed his interest in the photographic medium and its many intricacies as a youth in Weston, and

Whereas, after attending the University of Toronto and serving as a photographer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Peter Miller gained professional experience as a photojournalist on the staff of Life Magazine, and

Whereas, the rural landscape of Vermont beckoned him home, and he returned to Vermont to pursue a career as a freelance photojournalist, and

Whereas, over the years, Peter Miller has directed his camera’s photographic eye on the agricultural and village roots that are the essence of Vermont, and

Whereas, in 1990, “Vermont People,” the first of his three pictorial and textual essays on Vermont and Vermonters, consisting of memorable black and white photographs and accompanying text, was self-published after 11 in- and out-of-state publishers rejected his proposal as lacking marketability, and

Whereas, the publishers’ predictions proved extremely misguided as the book is now in its fifth printing, and 15,000 copies of this now quintessential book of Vermont and Vermonters have been sold, and

Whereas, in 2002, Peter Miller’s “Vermont Farm Women” was published and garnered much national acclaim, including three national awards, and the Vermont Book Professionals Association designated the publication as its nonfiction book of the year, and

Whereas, to coincide with the Preservation Trust of Vermont’s silver anniversary, his latest book, “Vermont Gathering Places,” was published in 2005, and

Whereas, beyond chronicling Vermont and Vermonters in pictures and words, Peter Miller has established both the Vermont Farm Fund, to assist farmers in the Northeast Kingdom, and the Vermont Farm Women Foundation, and

Whereas, in 1996, he donated 30 large prints to the state of Vermont, many of which have been on display in the State House, and

Whereas, Peter Miller, through his Vermont photographic trilogy, has preserved a record of Vermont’s cultural landscape for future generations, now therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:

That the General Assembly congratulates Peter Miller of Colbyville on his being named the Burlington Free Press’s Vermonter of the Year, and be it further

Resolved:  That the secretary of state be directed to send a copy of this resolution to Peter Miller in Colbyville.