'Antony Penrose lovingly and entertainingly pulls together the diverse threads of his mother's remarkable life' The Times
A highly readable biography of uniquely talented artist Lee Miller, now in compact paperback.
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'Antony Penrose lovingly and entertainingly pulls together the diverse threads of his mother's remarkable life' The Times
A highly readable biography of uniquely talented artist Lee Miller, now in compact paperback.
Description
Described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit', this biography is the inspiration behind the 2024 film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller.
Beautiful, bewitching and an exceptionally good photographer, Lee Miller was one of life's adventurers.
She became a Vogue cover girl in 1920s New York before embracing Paris, photography and Surrealism, and then dramatically changed her life yet again, reinventing herself as a war correspondent, notably covering the liberation of Dachau.
These are but three of the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded here by her son, Antony Penrose. Featuring a selection of Miller's finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso, Tanning and Ernst, Penrose's tribute to his mother brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived.
Critic Reviews
“"Part memoir, part photo essay, part search for the real woman behind an unconventional mother... Should ensure Miller the place she deserves in future histories of the period."”
'Antony Penrose lovingly and entertainingly pulls together the diverse threads of his mother’s remarkable life' - The Times
'A fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit' - Sunday Times
'A marvellously balanced narrative' - New Yorker
'Eminently readable and thoroughly enjoyable' - British Journal of Photography
About the Author
Antony Penrose is a British photographer. The son of Sir Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, Penrose is director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his parents' former home, Farley Farm House.
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