Lee Miller : a woman's war

Lee Miller A woman's war

Hilary Roberts

Book - 2015

Lee Miller photographed innumerable women during her career, first as a fashion photographer and then as a journalist during the Second World War, documenting the social consequences of the conflict, particularly the impact of the war on women across Europe. Her work as a war photographer is perhaps that for which she is best remembered in fact she was among the 20th century's most important photographers on the subject. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lee Miller: A Womans War tells the story beyond the battlefields of the Second World War by way of Millers extraordinary photographs of the women whose lives were affected. Introductions by Hilary Roberts and Antony Penrose, Lee Millers son, precede M...illers work, which is divided into chronological chapters. Millers photographs, many previously unpublished, are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of womens roles within the landscape of war.

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Subjects
Miller, Lee, > 1907-1977 > Exhibitions.
Portrait photography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Photography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Pictorial works.
Photography of women > Pictorial works.
Women photographers.
Catalogs.
Genres
Catalogs
Published
New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd 2015.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
Main Author
Hilary Roberts (author)
Corporate Author
Imperial War Museum (Great Britain) (-)
Other Authors
Lee Miller, 1907-1977 (photographer), Antony Penrose (author of introduction)
Item Description
"Published on the occasion of the major exhibition 'Lee Miller: a Woman's War' at the Imperial War Museum, London, 15 October 2015-24 April 2016." -- Title page verso.
Physical Description
223 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780500518182
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Review by Booklist Review

The regal, svelte blond beauty photographed with such sophistication for Vogue by Edward Steichen in the 1920s was the survivor of a childhood rape and her father's trangressive nude photographs. After Kotex derailed her modeling career by using her image without her permission to advertise its then-scandalous product, Miller headed to Paris, determined to take charge of the camera. She worked in fashion, found kindred spirits among the surrealists, and during WWII transformed herself into an intrepid photojournalist with a keen and caring eye. Dedicated to documenting the crucial roles women were playing in England's defense, Miller admiringly and compassionately photographed women pilots, factory workers, gunners, radio mechanics, civil servants, and nurses. She then pushed her way to the front, taking pictures of women in decimated France and defiant Germany, matching her staggering photo essays with sharply written, outraged dispatches. A biographical context for these 156 artistic and historical photographs is provided by Antony Penrose, Miller's son, and Roberts, research curator for London's Imperial War Museums. For the full story of the photographer's dramatic life, see Carolyn Burke's Lee Miller (2005).--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2015 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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