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The Lives of Lee Miller

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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.

I ordered this book from Amazon because I couldn't find it in any local book shops luckily the book has certainly not let me down. Beautiful photographs illustrating the lives this beautiful and highly interesting photographer led. Well researched, even though the book was written/compiled by her son, he was not necessarily born with the knowledge and skill that such a book requires. I would recommend this book to other artists, photographers, writers or simply folks who might be interested in finding out more about Lee Miller.The Lives of Lee Miller