Binding: Hardcover
Description: One hundred of the most outstanding photographs taken by photographer model and Surrealist muse Lee Miller published in anticipation of the November 2023 release of the film Lee starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller Photojournalist war correspondent model and Surrealist muse Lee Miller was one of the most important women photographers of the twentieth century working in the fields of photojournalism fashion portraiture and advertising. This book presents 100 of Miller's finest works in a single volume. Introduced to photography at an early age Lee Miller honed her craft in Paris where she associated with the Surrealists and avant - garde artists including Jean Cocteau and Picasso. Together with Man Ray she accidentally discovered the distinctive technique of solarization to create mesmerizing halo effects. After establishing her own photographic studio in New York where she became a prominent commercial photographer she then moved to the Middle East and Europe before becoming the official war photographer for Vogue a period during which she took many of her most iconic photographs. This evocative book collects Lee Miller's most famous documentary fashion and war works as well as photographs of Miller all carefully compiled by her son the photographer Antony Penrose with a foreword by actress Kate Winslet who will star as Miller in the film Lee.
Title: Lee Miller: Photographs
Author(s): Penrose Antony
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500025925
Pages: 144 Pages, 122 Ills. Of Which 110 Duotone; 110 Halftones, Duotone; 9 Illustrations, Black And White;
Publication Date: 10/10/2023
Category: Individual Photographers