Lee Miller

Photographs

Antony Penrose, Kate Winslet

$60

Hardback

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English

Thames & Hudson
31 August 2023

Individual photographers

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.

By: Antony Penrose
Foreword by: Kate Winslet
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 276mm, Width: 250mm,
Weight: 1.100kg
ISBN: 9780500025925
ISBN 10: 0500025924
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 31 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Antony Penrose is a British photographer. The son of Sir Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, Penrose is director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his parents' former home, Farley Farm House. His biography The Lives of Lee Miller is published by Thames & Hudson. Kate Winslet is an Academy Award-winning actress, who will play the lead role in the film about Lee Miller's life due for release in 2023.

Reviews for Lee Miller: Photographs

'Tells a unique story of the second world war' - Guardian 'Looking at these photographs together, one is clear that not many artists of her generation saw with more piercing or perceptive eyes than Lee Miller … one of the most remarkable artists of the 20th century … this book, in the flick of a hundred pages, conveys the breadth, quality and consistent complexity of this extraordinary woman behind the Rolleiflex lens' - World of Interiors