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Man
Ray / Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism
by Phillip Prodger
Hardcover from Merrell Publishers
ISBN: 1858945577
Bringing together unique and rarely seen photographs,
paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exquisite book tells the story
of the tumultuous relationship between the artists Man Ray (1890 1976)
and Lee Miller (1907 1977). From 1929 to 1932, the two lived together in
Paris, first as teacher and student, and later as lovers. Historically,
Miller has been described as Man Ray's muse, but Partners in Surrealism
reveals how their brief, mercurial love affair was a key source of mutual
and sustained inspiration, resulting in some of the most powerful work
of each artist's career. Featuring a candid and poignant contribution from
Antony Penrose, the son of Miller and the English painter Roland Penrose,
on the relationship between Man Ray and his parents in later years, this
is an extraordinary exploration of the love, lust and desire that drove
the art of the Surrealists. |
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Lee
Miller: A Life
by Carolyn Burke
Paperback from University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226080676
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. 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. 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. 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. |
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Lee
Miller's War
by Antony Penrose, David E. Scherman
Paperback from Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500285586
The full range of Lee Miller's outstanding photographs from World
War II, accompanied by her brilliant dispatches.
Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941 to 1945 sets her apart
as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. Her words combine
immediacy with acute observation, and deep personal involvement with professional
detachment. Complementing her writing here are two hundred remarkable photographs
from the Lee Miller Archives. They show war-ravaged cities, buildings,
and landscapes; but above all they portray war-resilient people--soldiers,
leaders, medics, evacuees, prisoners of war, the wounded, the villains,
and the heroes.
There is the raw edge of combat portrayed at the siege of St. Malo
and in the bitterly fought Alsace campaign, and the disbelief and outrage
Miller describes on witnessing the victims of Dachau. The war's horror
is relieved by the spirit of postliberation Paris, where she indulged in
frivolous fashions and recorded memorable conversations with Picasso, Cocteau,
Eluard, Aragon, and Colette. The book ends with Miller's on-the-scene report
giving a sardonic description of Hitler's abandoned house in Munich and
the looting and burning of his alpine fortress at Berchtesgaden, which
marked a symbolic end to the war. 160 duotone illustrations. |
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The
Lives of Lee Miller
by Antony Penrose
Paperback from Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500275092
"Part memoir, part photo essay, part search for the real woman behind
an unconventional mother....Should ensure Miller the place she deserves
in future histories of the period."--Art in America
· Lee Miller: 1927: New York. Classically beautiful, she is
discovered by Condé Nast and immortalized by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene,
Horst, and other famous photographers.
· Lee Miller: 1929: Paris. Protégé and lover of
Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography
and develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer.
· Lee Miller: 1939-1945: Europe. She becomes a U.S. war correspondent
and covers the liberation of Paris. Her photographs of the 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 unearthed a rich selection of her finest work, including portraits
of her friends Picasso, Braque, Ernst, Eluard, and Miró. To these
are added many other photos that complement Penrose's highly readable biography
of this uniquely talented artist. 171 duotone illustrations. |
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Lee
Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desire (Pegasus)
by Katherine Slusher
Paperback from Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 3791337629
This richly illustrated joint biography tells the story of how a fashion
model turned photographer and an English Quaker turned Surrealist painter
and art collector influenced modern art with their vision and passion.
As they inspired each other's careers and established their home as a meeting
place for the exchange of ideas among artists such as Pablo Picasso, Man
Ray, Max Ernst, Paul Eluard, Joan Miro, and Saul Steinberg, Miller and
Penrose created a life together that was in itself a work of art. In the
book concise accounts of their lives are followed by comparisons of their
works, which demonstrate their symbiotic relationship. The range of art
reproduced in the book - photographs, sketches, paintings, and collages
- offers a kaleidoscopic sampling of these two important oeuvres and an
exquisite portrayal of a unique and uniquely productive partnership. |
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The
Art of Lee Miller
by Mark Haworth-Booth
Hardcover from Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300123752
"This is the most scholarly, accessible, and exciting
writing on Lee Miller to date."
---Anthony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives
Lee Miller (1907--1977) was one of the most remarkable photographic
artists of the 20th century. She created Surrealist-inspired photographs
of haunting originality, portraits of genius, and daring war photographs.
This unprecedented book brings together all of Miller's major vintage prints
for the first time, including sensational works never before published,
rare and revealing drawings, selections from Miller's writings as a war
correspondent for Vogue magazine, and an extraordinary collage from
1937.
Miller performed with unique success on both sides of the camera. A
renowned beauty, she began her career being photographed as a fashion and
fine art model by such luminaries as Arnold Genthe and Edward Steichen,
stunning examples of which are included in this book. Miller moved to Paris
in 1928, determined to take up photography; there she became the apprentice,
collaborator, and muse of Man Ray. In the 1930s and '40s, Miller shot remarkable
portraits of such iconic figures as Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin,
Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. Turning her Surrealist eye to
unexpected photographic subjects, she earned major commissions from American
and European fashion magazines and also became a respected photo-journalist.
Miller's startling images of the Dachau concentration camp are among the
most powerful records of the Holocaust.
Published in conjunction with the centenary of Miller's birth, this
beautifully designed and produced book is an essential survey of this fascinating
woman's life and career. |
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Lee
Miller: Portraits from a Life
by Richard Calvocoressi
Paperback from Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500285225
Lee Miller is possibly the 20th century's most famous woman photographer.
During her extraordinary life, she came into contact with a wide range
of people including many of the most celebrated and influential artists,
writers, actors, fashion designers and socialites of the last century.
The photographs include not only Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Dora Maar, Igor
Stravinsky, Henry Moore, Colette, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire and a
host of others, but also pictures of unsung individuals engaged in war
work. Most memorable of all are Miller's pictures of victims and perpetrators
of Nazi oppression - some of the most powerful images from the last century.
These brilliant portraits are shown together for the first time. Throughout
the book, Richard Calvocoressi demonstrates the originality and artistry
of Miller's work, while exploring the relationship between the photographs
and her fascinating life. |
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Lee
Miller Photographer
by Jane Livingston, Lee Miller
Hardcover from Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500541396
Fashion model, photographer, war correspondent, Lee Miller is now being
rediscovered for her remarkable talent. Here is a rich selection of her
finest photographs, one that will ensure Lee Miller's place among the great
photographers of the 20th century. 100 duotone photos. |
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