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| Title | : | Lee Miller: A Life |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (773 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226080676 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 446 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-26 |
| Language | : | English |
Lee Miller’s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Burke captures all the verve and energy of Miller’s life: from her early childhood trauma to her stint as a Vogue model and art-world ingénue, from her harrowing years as a war correspondent to her unconventional marriages and passion for gourmet cooking. Carolyn Burke, a biographer and art critic, here reveals how the muse who inspired Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso could be the same person who unflinchingly photographed the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. A lavishly illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, Lee Miller illuminates an astonishing woman’s journey from art object to artist.
. Her descriptions of Miller's imagery are so vivid that, despite the dozens of photographs reproduced here, readers will find themselves wanting to see more. As the first major biographer outside the Miller family, she traces a dynamic life that embodies the spirit of the 20th century's first half. From Publishers Weekly Miller (1907–1977) began her career as a fashion model, and quickly decamped for Paris, where she became Man Ray's muse and student. Burke (Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy) writes with a careful sense of how Miller might have approached her work and of how it is perceived by modern viewers. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. After they split, she returned to Manhattan for a brief stint as a studio photographer, but eventually returned to E
Lee Miller L. Hurley Writing about Lee Miller is like writing about Earnest Hemingway. It can't be anything other than fascinating. Miller lived an extraordinary life on both sides of the lens. Her young body captured by her lover Man Ray (and her father) is a thing of beauty yet so are her incredibly arresting images of everyone from Charlie Chaplin to a broken and beaten German prison guard. Miller knew what she wanted and like Hemingway, let nothing or no one get in her way. And, like Hemingway, once she achieved it all, disillusion wormed its way in along with pills and booze which took her beauty and dama. "Flapper finds her Destiny in World War II" according to James R. Holland. Like so many individuals over the ages, Lee Miller grew up in a relatively small community in what the media currently refers to as "Fly Over Country." A member of a talented middle class family, she enjoyed every advantage that her parents could provide, which was considerable. From an early age she displayed a thirst for adventure. She fled to Paris to study and fell in love with the Latin Quarter before returning to America. Moving to New York City she stepped into the path of and on-coming car and was pulled to safety by a well-dressed stranger. In shock, Lee babbled in French causing . A Glamorous Enigma Kcolorado Lee Miller is an enigma- though Carolyn Burke tells us a lot about her incredible life. As a biography, this is an honorable book. It is comprehensive and tells us about the fabulous life and career of a woman who participated in some of the most exciting times of the 20th century. From NY in the 20s to the Paris of Surrealists in the early 30s, back to NY and then to Egypt and the middle east. By this time Lee Miller was only 30 and some of her greatest adventures were ahead as Vogue's war correspondent and photographer during World War II in Europe. Her work continued during the immediat
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