The Lives of Lee Miller

by Antony Penrose

Overview

A highly readable biography of uniquely talented artist Lee Miller, now in compact paperback.

Collected in this compelling volume are the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Paul Eluard, and Joan Miró.

Starting in 1927 in New York, this volume chronicles Lee Miller as she is discovered as a model by Condé Nast, hits the cover of Vogue, and is immortalized by Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huene, Horst P. Horst, and other acclaimed photographers. From there, readers follow Miller to Paris where she, along with Man Ray, invented the solarization technique of photography, and where she developed into a brilliant Surrealist photographer. Finally, this account covers the later chapters of her life, when she became a war correspondent during World WarII, traveling with the Allied armies to cover the siege of Saint-Malo and the liberation of Paris, which lead to her photographs of the Dachau concentration camp that shocked the world.

A highly readable biography of a uniquely talented artist, The Lives of Lee Miller is now published in compact paperback.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500294284
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	09/21/2021
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	200,950
Product dimensions:	5.10(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 6

2 Photography in Surrealist Paris 1929-1932 20

3 Photography in Fashionable New York 1932-1934 38

4 Egypt and First Marriage 1934-1937 50

5 Escape from Egypt 1937-1939 65

6 'Grim Glory': Wartime London 1939-1944 86

7 Lee's War 1944-1945 104

8 Spinning It Out: Austria 1945 129

9 The Last Waltz: Eastern Europe 1945-1946 141

10 Winged Serpents: Married Life in Hampstead and Sussex 1946-1956 165

11 Food, Friends and Faraway Places 1956-1977 190

Postscript 209

Notes 210

Acknowledgments 212

Picture Credits 214

Index 215

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

"[Miller] created images that demand attention."

The Wall Street Journal