The Lives of Lee Miller

by Antony Penrose

Book Overview

Collected in this compelling volume are the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Paul Eluard, and Joan Mir?.

Starting in 1927 in New York, this volume chronicles Lee Miller as she is discovered as a model by Cond? Nast, hits the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500294283
• ISBN13: 9780500294284
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

a friendly bio

First I want to state that this is a very fine biography, the author (Miller's son) does an admirable job of showing the many different sides and personalities of a multi-gifted woman whose life spanned the tumultuous revolution of women's roles in society. But Lee Miller led a very complicated and somewhat contradictory life and the author manages (artifully, I admit)to avoid probing too deeply into the dark corners that would truly flesh out her life. There are crucial points in the book where a gentle fog of vagueness creeps in where an objective biographer would have strove for clarity, i.e. what exactly was the nature of her relationship with her father? He clearly had a huge role in her life and career (he began photographing her nude at a very early age)but the treatment of their relationship is ginger to say the very least. But issues outside the family are well covered, inside not so much. So to sum up, a good general bio but it is neither too critical nor too in depth on certain issues.