Umfang:
144 Seiten
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29 cm
ISBN:
9780500025925
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0500025924
Inhalt:
Photojournalist, war correspondent, model and Surrealist muse, Lee Miller was one of the most important women photographers of the twentieth century, working in the fields of photojournalism, fashion, portraiture and advertising. This book presents 100 of Miller?s finest works in a single volume.0 0Introduced to photography at an early age, Lee Miller honed her craft in Paris, where she associated with the Surrealists and avant-garde artists including Jean Cocteau and Picasso. Together with Man Ray she accidentally discovered the distinctive technique of solarization to create mesmerizing halo effects. After establishing her own photographic studio in New York, where she became a prominent commercial photographer, she then moved to the Middle East and Europe before becoming the official war photographer for Vogue, a period during which she took many of her most iconic photographs.0 0This evocative book collects Lee Miller?s most famous documentary, fashion, and war works, as well as photographs of Miller, all carefully compiled by her son the photographer Antony Penrose, with a foreword by actress Kate Winslet, who will star as Miller in the film Lee
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
Schlagwort(e):
Miller, Lee 1907-1977
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Bildband
Mehr zum Autor:
Penrose, Antony 1947-
Mehr zum Autor:
Winslet, Kate 1975-
Mehr zum Autor:
Miller, Lee 1907-1977
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