Burke, Carolyn

Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera

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ISBN 13:: 9780747581192
author:: Burke, Carolyn
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2006
Pages:: 448
Dimensions:: 12.9 x 3 x 19.8 centimetres (0.2
Genre:: Biography: general
Condition:: New
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Lee Miller was a photographer of extraordinary talent and a woman of immense complexity. Born in 1907, she moved seamlessly from art student to Vogue model, muse to Man Ray and the Parisian surrealists, and eventually established her own studio. Her photographs of cultural icons and her own portraits are renowned, but it is her experiences during World War Two that are perhaps most fascinating. Miller was one of the few women to document the war, capturing the liberation of concentration camps and the private lives of those in power. Yet, her own life was marked by darkness and trauma, including a devastating childhood experience that would haunt her for the rest of her life. This biography, meticulously researched and beautifully written, offers a nuanced and absorbing account of a woman who defied convention and lived a life of remarkable contrasts.

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