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Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera
Carolyn Burke
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Description for Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera
Paperback. The first full-length biography of the legendary photographer Lee Miller Series: Bloomsbury Lives of Women. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 400. On Both Sides of the Camera. Series: Bloomsbury Lives of Women. 448 pages, Illustrations. The first full-length biography of the legendary photographer Lee Miller. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AJB; BG. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight: 352.
Lee Miller was one of the most extraordinary photographers of the twentieth century, famous for her portraits and devastating photographs of World War Two, as well as for her legendary beauty. An art student and a Vogue model, she was a close friend of artists such as Picasso, Cocteau, Max Ernst and Paul Eluard, and became a muse of Man Ray and the Parisian surrealists. One of the few female photographers to enter Hitler's Germany, she was the first to access his Munich home and among the first to document the liberation of the concentration camps. Carolyn Burke ... Read more
Lee Miller was one of the most extraordinary photographers of the twentieth century, famous for her portraits and devastating photographs of World War Two, as well as for her legendary beauty. An art student and a Vogue model, she was a close friend of artists such as Picasso, Cocteau, Max Ernst and Paul Eluard, and became a muse of Man Ray and the Parisian surrealists. One of the few female photographers to enter Hitler's Germany, she was the first to access his Munich home and among the first to document the liberation of the concentration camps. Carolyn Burke ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Bloomsbury Lives of Women
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747581192
SKU
V9780747581192
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About Carolyn Burke
Carolyn Burke was born in Australia. A biographer, translator and art critic, she met and interviewed Lee Miller while conducting research for her previous biography, Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Her many articles and translations from the French have appeared in such magazines as Art In America, The New Yorker, PN Review, Pink, Hemispheres, and Poetry Flash. She ... Read more
Reviews for Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera
'Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life in this astounding book' Daily Telegraph 'Lee Miller the Surrealist icon turned wartime heroine behind the lens attracts a serious, and gripping biography from Carolyn Burke' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Lee Miller does its perplexingly complicated subject more than justice, adding welcome depths and nuances to the ... Read more