LEE MILLER'S WAR - Antony Penrose
Lee Miller's work for Vogue between 1941 and 1945 distinguished her as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. Early in the war, she worked for Vogue in the fashion field, photographing Dylan Thomas, Margot Fonteyn and James Mason, as well as Henry Moore drawing in London's air-raid shelters. After D-Day and for the rest of the war, Miller followed the American army across Europe, giving Vogue an extraordinary direct line to the front in France, and giving the world some of the most powerful photographs of the Second World War ever published. In Lee Miller's War, twelve of Miller's most important dispatches are assembled from the original manuscripts, interspersed with letters and telegrams that provide a glimpse into Lee's personal reactions to the events she reported. Beginning with her first report from a field hospital shortly after D-Day, the dispatches and 200 photographs chronicle the liberation of Paris, the fighting in the Loire Valley, Luxembourg, Alsace, the Russo-American liaison at Torgau and the liberation of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, ending with her now-famous photo of Hitler's house in Berchtesgaden, Alderhorst, engulfed in flames. She combined personal commitment with professional detachment, while her photographs, with their own quality of surreal irony, show cities, buildings and landscapes ravaged by war, but above all the heroic resilience of people. David Scherman, the renowned war photojournalist who shared many of these missions with her, has written a fascinating foreword.
Published by Thames and Hudson, 2005
208 pages
ISBN: 978-0-500-28558-9
Lee Miller's work for Vogue between 1941 and 1945 distinguished her as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. Early in the war, she worked for Vogue in the fashion field, photographing Dylan Thomas, Margot Fonteyn and James Mason, as well as Henry Moore drawing in London's air-raid shelters. After D-Day and for the rest of the war, Miller followed the American army across Europe, giving Vogue an extraordinary direct line to the front in France, and giving the world some of the most powerful photographs of the Second World War ever published. In Lee Miller's War, twelve of Miller's most important dispatches are assembled from the original manuscripts, interspersed with letters and telegrams that provide a glimpse into Lee's personal reactions to the events she reported. Beginning with her first report from a field hospital shortly after D-Day, the dispatches and 200 photographs chronicle the liberation of Paris, the fighting in the Loire Valley, Luxembourg, Alsace, the Russo-American liaison at Torgau and the liberation of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, ending with her now-famous photo of Hitler's house in Berchtesgaden, Alderhorst, engulfed in flames. She combined personal commitment with professional detachment, while her photographs, with their own quality of surreal irony, show cities, buildings and landscapes ravaged by war, but above all the heroic resilience of people. David Scherman, the renowned war photojournalist who shared many of these missions with her, has written a fascinating foreword.
Published by Thames and Hudson, 2005
208 pages
ISBN: 978-0-500-28558-9
Lee Miller's work for Vogue between 1941 and 1945 distinguished her as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. Early in the war, she worked for Vogue in the fashion field, photographing Dylan Thomas, Margot Fonteyn and James Mason, as well as Henry Moore drawing in London's air-raid shelters. After D-Day and for the rest of the war, Miller followed the American army across Europe, giving Vogue an extraordinary direct line to the front in France, and giving the world some of the most powerful photographs of the Second World War ever published. In Lee Miller's War, twelve of Miller's most important dispatches are assembled from the original manuscripts, interspersed with letters and telegrams that provide a glimpse into Lee's personal reactions to the events she reported. Beginning with her first report from a field hospital shortly after D-Day, the dispatches and 200 photographs chronicle the liberation of Paris, the fighting in the Loire Valley, Luxembourg, Alsace, the Russo-American liaison at Torgau and the liberation of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, ending with her now-famous photo of Hitler's house in Berchtesgaden, Alderhorst, engulfed in flames. She combined personal commitment with professional detachment, while her photographs, with their own quality of surreal irony, show cities, buildings and landscapes ravaged by war, but above all the heroic resilience of people. David Scherman, the renowned war photojournalist who shared many of these missions with her, has written a fascinating foreword.
Published by Thames and Hudson, 2005
208 pages
ISBN: 978-0-500-28558-9