The Lives of Lee Miller

by Antony Penrose

Overview

Beautiful, bewitching, and an exceptionally good photographer, Lee Miller was one of life's adventurers.

She became a Vogue cover girl in 1920s New York before embracing Paris, photography, and surrealism, and then dramatically changed her life yet again, reinventing herself as a war correspondent, notably covering the liberation of Dachau.

These are but three of the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded here by her son, Antony Penrose. Featuring a selection of Miller's finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso, Tanning, and Ernst, Penrose's tribute to his mother brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500297520
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	09/03/2024
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Antony Penrose is a British photographer. The son of Sir Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, Penrose is director of the Lee Miller Archives and the Penrose Collection at his parents’ former home, Farleys House. He wrote the biography The Lives of Lee Miller.

Table of Contents

1. Early Years, 1907-1929

2. Photography in Surrealist Paris, 1929-1932

3. Photography in Fashionable New York, 1932-1934

4. Egypt and First Marriage, 1934-1937

5. Escape from Egypt, 1937-1939

6. "Grim Glory": Wartime London, 1939-1944

7. Lee’s War, 1944-1945

8. Spinning It Out: Austria, 1945

9. The Last Waltz: Eastern Europe, 1945-1946

10. Winged Serpents: Married Life in Hampstead and Sussex, 1946-1956

11. Food, Friends and Faraway Places

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent memoir . . . of a remarkable career."

The New York Times

"The Lives of Lee Miller is admiring, but maintains a distance from its subject: As Mr. Penrose writes in a brief endnote, the author was discovering his mother alongside his reader."

The Wall Street Journal

"Sure to entertain photography lovers and history buffs alike."

The New Criterion

"This handsome monograph...collects more than 100 photographs from each phase of Miller's storied career, imagery that affirms the complete ease and mastery of each genre she explored... She had a knack for transforming prosaic objects and moments into startlingly surreal visual statements... [A] must-have book."

Black & White Magazine

"Should ensure Miller the place she deserves in future histories."

Art in America