The Lives of Lee Miller

Lee Miller, 1927 - New York : A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Conde Nast, hits the cover of Vogue and is 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, 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. Featuring a selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso, Ernst and Miro, Penrose''s tribute to his mother brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived. With 116 illustrations

Vorwort
'Antony Penrose lovingly and entertainingly pulls together the diverse threads of his mother's remarkable life' The Times

Autorentext

Antony Penrose is a British photographer. The son of Sir Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, he is director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his parents' former home, Farley Farm House.

Klappentext

Published to coincide with the release of the film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, a biography described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit.'

Zusammenfassung
Described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit', this biography is the inspiration behind the 2024 film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller.

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.

Inhalt

1. Early Years, 19071929
   
   2. Photography in Surrealist Paris, 19291932
   3. Photography in Fashionable New York, 19321934
   4. Egypt and First Marriage, 19341937
   5. Escape from Egypt, 19371939
   6. 'Grim Glory': Wartime London, 19391944
   7. Lee's War, 19441945
   8. Spinning It Out: Austria, 1945
   9. The Last Waltz: Eastern Europe, 19451946
   10. Winged Serpents: Married Life in Hampstead and Sussex, 19461956
   11. Food, Friends and Faraway Places