Lee Miller

Offers a multifaceted study of the iconic model, photographer, muse, journalist, mother, sexual adventuress, and gourmet cook, documenting her love affair with artist Man Ray, her unconventional marriages, and her troubled personal life.

Auteur

Carolyn Burke has taught at Princeton and the University of California at Santa Cruz, among other universities in France, the U.S., and Australia. She is the author of Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.

Texte du rabat

A lushly illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, independence and collaboration, "Lee Miller" is an astute study of one of the most visible, yet enigmatic, cultural figures of the recent past. of photos and 58 photos in text.

Résumé
Lee Miller's life embodied all the 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. This story of art and beauty, sex and power, modernism and surrealism illuminates a woman's journey from art object to artist.