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File Size: 4960 KB
Print Length: 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf (October 6, 2010)
Publication Date: October 6, 2010
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B004478AG6
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Like so many individuals over the ages, Lee Miller grew up in a relatively small community in what the media currently refers to as "Fly Over Country." A member of a talented middle class family, she enjoyed every advantage that her parents could provide, which was considerable. From an early age she displayed a thirst for adventure. She fled to Paris to study and fell in love with the Latin Quarter before returning to America. Moving to New York City she stepped into the path of and on-coming car and was pulled to safety by a well-dressed stranger. In shock, Lee babbled in French causing the stranger, Conde Nast, to take a closer look at the young woman he'd just rescued. He was impressed and asked her if she would like to come to work for one of his magazines--Vogue. At age of 19 Lee became a cover girl for Vogue and was dubbed the embodiment of the modern girl. She was the official model for the legendary "flapper." Soon she was in demand by most of the most famous photographers in America including Edward Steichen and Arnold Genthe. Tiring of being just a New York celebrity-model Lee was soon back in Paris where in a single day she became the traveling companion, mistress, model, muse, photography assistant and student of photographer Man Ray. Through him she became a member of the Surrealists and lived and moved among the great artists and writers living and working in Montparnasse at the time. Her early associations with these world famous artists would change her life. Under Man Ray's tutelage she slowly began a transformation from being in front of the camera to being behind it. She eventually received additional photographic training at the Clarence White School along with another soon-to-be-famous woman photographer Margaret Bourke-White. After marrying a wealthy Egyptian and going slightly crazy as a member of the "Black Satin & Pearls" expatriates living in Cairo, Lee found her mission in life by another unlikely event rivaling her earlier "Grace Kelly-like" discovery by Conde Nast. World War II broke out while Lee awaited its predicted arrival in London. Unbelievably she was soon working as a war photographer for Vogue magazine. Through her good looks, charm, talent and stealth she was soon the only woman photographer covering the front lines of the European battlefront. World War II was the highlight of Lee's photography career. She took to being a successful war correspondent like a duckling takes to water. She was tireless, talented, resourceful and finally fulfilled through accomplishing important work. Changed by her war experiences, (an early example of Post-Traumatic Stress) she never quite received the same sense of satisfaction for her later work, but she was no longer as restless after having fulfilled some indefinable need in her naturally adventurous personality. For a beautiful woman (Picasso painted six bare breasted portraits of her during one summer), she was able to shake off the handicap of being a NY celebrity and actually accomplishes some important work that fulfilled her innermost needs. She was no longer just Lady Penrose, but her own person with her own considerable accomplishments. When Queen Elizabeth knighted her husband fellow Surrealist Roland Penrose in 1966, it didn't turn her into a snob. She sometimes jokingly referred to herself as "Lady Lee of Poughkeepsie." There is a lot of humor in this biography. Here are two choice lines, paraphrased, neither of them by Lee: ..."brevity is the soul of lingerie" (Dottie Parker) and on the subject of a new brand of women's underwear for the well-dressed wartime English women, "One Yank and they come right off." "The Art of Lee Miller" by Mark Haworth-Booth is an excellent companion book to Burke's biography because it reproduces many of the photographs discussed, but not shown in the biography. Lee Miller was notable for her beauty, her famous artist friends, her photography, her sense of humor and her infamous sexual exploits. Except for a few boring moments during her "Black Satin & Pearls" experience in Egypt, this exhaustively researched book is difficult to put aside. During the hours spent reading the WW II segments I would stop reading and find myself disoriented to be back in the present time and not on the European battlefields. That's powerful writing at work.Lee Miller was much more than Vogue's personification of the "quintessential flapper." The reader can have fun comparing the Vogue cover of 19-year-old Lee as the epitome of the stylish modern New York woman with another picture of her washing off six-weeks of hard-won war correspondent grime while bathing in Hitler's personal bathtub in his captured Munich home. Unfortunately, she reported the bath reminded her too much of her recent, terrifying photo coverage of the liberation of Dachau and it's "bathhouse gas chambers."
Fascinating woman. A bit too much detail in places of meaningless minutia
Thank you!
I bogged down in the first half of this book. I was annoyed that the author didn't mention whether Lee's rapist was ever prosecuted. Child abuse is so upsetting. After that, Lee's years as a beautiful young woman in Paris who was as sexually "liberated" as the hippies of the 1960s was frankly boring me. I put the book aside for several months, but then picked it up again and got into the war years. This was absolutely fascinating. Lee was amazing as a photo journalist in WWII. She was a remarkable woman. This book gives very interesting glimpses into the war and post war Europe.
An amazing life only told in a so-so way. I forced myself to continue but it didn't get better.
Turns out I had it already
Writing about Lee Miller is like writing about Earnest Hemingway. It can't be anything other than fascinating. Miller lived an extraordinary life on both sides of the lens. Her young body captured by her lover Man Ray (and her father) is a thing of beauty yet so are her incredibly arresting images of everyone from Charlie Chaplin to a broken and beaten German prison guard. Miller knew what she wanted and like Hemingway, let nothing or no one get in her way. And, like Hemingway, once she achieved it all, disillusion wormed its way in along with pills and booze which took her beauty and damaged her sense of humor. My chief complaint with this book is the amount of time Carolyn Burke dedicates to describing Lee Miller's images rather than showing them. It's the difference in describing sex and having it.
Model, journalist, photojournalist -- her participation in coverage of World War II in Europe was both atypical and showed splendid bravery.
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