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 over one hundred of
Miller's finest works in a single volume.
Introduced to photography at an early age, Miller honed her craft in
Paris, where she associated with the surrealists and other avant-garde
artists, including Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. Together with Man
Ray, she 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 Miller's most famous documentary, fashion,
and war works, as well as photographs of Miller. They are all carefully
compiled by her son, photographer Antony Penrose, with a foreword by
actress Kate Winslet, who will star as Miller in the film Lee.
