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SOLDVery good book. $18 incl. media mail, or $23 by Priority Mail. 1985, 8.5 x 11, 216 pages, softcover. 171 duotone illustrations. Good condition.
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 seige of St Malo and the libera-
tion 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, whose years of work
on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of
her own finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso,
Braque, Ernst, Eluard, Miro . . . To these are added many
other photographs, perfectly allied to a richly readable bio-
graphy, together documenting the unforgettable story of an
extraordinary artist and free spirit.
`A fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit'
— Sunday Times
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 seige of St Malo and the libera-
tion 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, whose years of work
on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of
her own finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso,
Braque, Ernst, Eluard, Miro . . . To these are added many
other photographs, perfectly allied to a richly readable bio-
graphy, together documenting the unforgettable story of an
extraordinary artist and free spirit.
`A fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit'
— Sunday Times
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