The Lives of Lee Miller (Paperback)

by Antony Penrose (Author)

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Lee Miller exemplified the restlesness of the Lost Generation. She was a stunningly beautiful Vogue model, a fine photographer who studied with and was the lover of Man Ray, a war correspondent, and in later life a gourmet cook. She was married twice: first to an Egyptian businessman and then to British surrealist Roland Penrose. Lavishly illustrated with Miller's own work, Penrose's tribute to his mother brings to life a uniquely talented women and the turbulent times in which she lived. This opulent book, like its subject, is multi-faceted. Penrose has produced a work that is part picture book, part biography, part social history, and successful in all aspects. Highly recommended. Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Comm. Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Part memoir, part photo essay, part search for the real woman behind an unconventional mother . . . Should insure Miller the place she deserves in future histories of the period. -- Art in America

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Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson (April 5, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500275092
• ISBN-13: 978-0500275092
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #368,343 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars a friendly bio, March 30, 2004

By	S. A Troutt (MURFREESBORO, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.