"THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER" par Anthony PENROSE. Editions Thames and Hudson Ltd, Londres. 1985. Imprimé au Japon. Petit in-4, couverture toilée grise sous jaquette photo. 216 pages. Texte en anglais illustré de 171 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, in-texte et hors texte, par Lee Miller et des portraits de la photographe par Horst P. Horst, Man Ray, Theodore Miller...

 

"Lee Miller: 1927: New York: Possessor of perhaps the most classically beautiful face and figure of her generation… 1929: Paris: The protégée and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him she solarization technique of photography… 1935: Cairo: Bored with her life as the wife of an Egyptian businessman, she travels endlessly around Egypt… 1939-45: Europe : She becomes and accredited US war correspondent and covers the siege of St. Malo and the liberation of Paris… These are butt a few of The Lives of Lee Miller, intimately and fully recorded here by her son, Antony Penrose. This is the first book to reveal her extraordinary vision as a photographer. It also brings vividly to life the story of a woman who spanned many worlds – friends and photographer of some of this century's greatest artists: Picasso, Braque, Ernst, Eluard, Miro… But it is above all an account of a free and independent spirit, in charge of her own destiny…"

 

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