Lee Miller: A Life

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Lee Miller: A Life
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- Artists, Architects & Photographers
- Arts & Literature
A trenchant yet sympathetic portrait of Lee Miller, one of the iconic faces and careers of the twentieth century. Carolyn Burke reveals Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cookâ€”the last of the many dramatic transformations she underwent during her lifetime. A sleek blond bombshell, Miller was part of a glamorous circle in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s as a leading Vogue model, close to Edward Steichen, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso. Then, during World War II, she became a war correspondentâ€”one of the first women to do soâ€”shooting harrowing images of a devastated Europe, entering Dachau with the Allied troops, posing in Hitlerâ€™s bathtub. Burke examines Millerâ€™s troubled personal life, from the unsettling photo sessions during which Miller, both as a child and as a young woman, posed nude for her father, to her crucial affair with artist-photographer Man Ray, to her unconventional marriages. And through Millerâ€™s body of work, Burke explores the photographerâ€™s journey from object to subject; her eye for form, pattern, and light; and the powerful emotion behind each of her images.A lushly illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, independence and collaboration, Lee Miller: A Life is an astute study of a fascinating, yet enigmatic, cultural figure.

Country	USA
Author	Carolyn Burke
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780375401473
Format	Deckle Edge
ISBN	0375401474
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	448
PublicationDate	2005-11-15
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2005-11-15
Studio	Knopf

Lee Miller: A Life

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