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The Lives of Lee Miller Paperback – 11 April 1988
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Lee Miller: 1929: Paris: Protégé and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography, develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer, and plays the statue in Cocteau's film Blood of a Poet.
Lee Miller: 1939-45: Europe: Living at times with her future husband, the painter Roland Penrose, she becomes a US war correspondent and covers the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris. Her photographs of Dachau concentration camp shock the world.
These are but three of the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded here by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of her own finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso, Braque, Ernst, Eluard, Miró... To these are added many other photographs, perfectly allied to a highly readable biography of this uniquely talented artist.
- Print length216 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThames and Hudson Ltd
- Publication date11 April 1988
- Dimensions22 x 1.8 x 27.7 cm
- ISBN-100500275092
- ISBN-13978-0500275092
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- Publisher : Thames and Hudson Ltd; 1st edition (11 April 1988)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 216 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0500275092
- ISBN-13 : 978-0500275092
- Dimensions : 22 x 1.8 x 27.7 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 483,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I had learned to appreciate Lee Miller as a photographer before I read this book. What I was endeared towards this time was her writing. Her direct American Modernist style passages brought her subject to the reader in a clear, no fuss manner. I was particular taken by her description of the baby dying in a clean, fully equipped hospital due to the lack of drugs. The extracts from her letters and articles are worthy of analysis in another book.







