Lee Miller : a life / Carolyn Burke.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Knopf, 2005Description: xv, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0375401474
- 9780375401473
- 770.92 22
- TR140.M55 B87 2005
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770.92 MAP Flowers / | 770.92 MAR Etienne-Jules Marey : a passion for the trace / | 770.92 MIC Foto follies : how photography lost its virginity on the way to the bank / | 770.92 MIL Lee Miller : a life / | 770.92 MOD Tina Modotti : photographs / | 770.92 MOF Tracey Moffatt : laudanum / | 770.92 MOR At home & abroad : a collection of photographs / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part One. Elizabeth -- 1. A Poughkeepsie Girlhood (1907-15) -- 2. Never Jam Today (1915-25) -- 3. Circulating Around (1925-26) -- 4. Being in Vogue (1926-29) -- Part Two. Miss Lee Miller -- 5. Montparnasse with Man Ray (1929-30) -- 6. La Femme Surrealiste (1930-32) -- 7. The Lee Miller Studio in Manhattan (1932-34) -- Part Three. Madame Eloui Bey -- 8. Egypt (1934-37) -- 9. Surrealist Encampments (Summer 1937) -- 10. The Egyptian Complex (1937-39) -- Part Four. Lee Miller, War Correspondent -- 11. London in the Blitz (1939-44) -- 12. Covering the War in France (1944-45) -- 13. Covering the War in Germany (1945) -- 14. Postwar (1945-46) -- Part Five. Lady Penrose -- 15. Patching Things Up (1946-50) -- 16. A Double Life (1950-61) -- 17. A Second Fame (1961-71) -- 18. Retrospectives (1971-77) -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Lee Miller Dinner for Eight.
"Carolyn Burke reveals Lee Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cook - 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 correspondent - one of the first women to do so - shooting harrowing images of a devastated Europe, entering Dachau with the Allied troops, posing in Hitler's bathtub." "Burke examines Miller'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 Miller's body of work, Burke explores the photographer's journey from object to subject; her eye for form, pattern, and light; and the powerful emotion behind each of her images." "An illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, independence and collaboration, Lee Miller: A Life is a study of a fascinating, yet enigmatic, cultural figure."--BOOK JACKET.
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