This is another one of the books in our Fine Arts collection which I picked up after reading The Age of Light. It's a wonderful example of how Lee Miller defied categorization, moving from model to muse to photographer and war correspondent. She was a celebrated Surrealist who fought for recognition of her own work when Man Ray took some of the credit, and her fashion photographs are some of the best known from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. While she was recognized as an important photographer in her lifetime, many of her images had remained unpublished. This book shows how the world of fashion shows as the framework for Miller's creative development, but also how to see how her work showed the effect of war on the lives of women in the 1940s and 1950s. This book combines text with archival fashion photographs, contact sheets, her published illustrations and her memos, so it's more than just a book of photographs -- it's a great reference tool for understanding Miller and her work.
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