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. This biography aims to capture Lee Miller
in all her complexity, unveiling the art world of the thirties and forties of
which she was a central figure.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 captures Lee Miller in all her complexity,
unveiling the glittering art world of the thirties and forties of which she was
a central figure. Meticulously researched, beautifully written, this is an
enthralling account of one of the most fascinating women of her era.
