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"Part memoir, part photo essay, part search for the real woman behind an unconventional mother....Should ensure Miller the place she deserves in future histories of the period."--"Art in America" - Lee Miller: 1927: New York. Classically beautiful, she is discovered by Conde Nast and immortalized by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene, Horst, and other famous photographers. - Lee Miller: 1929: Paris. Protege and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography and develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer. - Lee Miller: 1939-1945: Europe. She becomes a U.S. war correspondent and covers the liberation of Paris. Her photographs of the 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 unearthed a rich selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso, Braque, Ernst, Eluard, and Miro. To these are added many other photos that complement Penrose's highly readable biography of this uniquely talented artist. 171 duotone illustrations.
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Antony Penrose is the son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and is director of the Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection. His other booksinclude The Lives of Lee Miller, Lee Miller s War, and the acclaimed children s book, The Boy Who Bit Picasso.He lives in Sussex.
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Lee Miller, the photographer, was one of life's adventurers. She became a Vogue cover girl on '20s New York before discovering Paris, Man Ray and Surrealism, and then changed her life yet again, reinventing herself as a US war correspondent.
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- PublisherThames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0500541086
- ISBN 13 9780500541081
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages216
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