Lee Miller in fashion /
Lee Miller was a Vogue cover girl, Man Ray's lover, the first photojournalist at the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald and one of the most important female photographers of the 20th century. Combining fine art and urban wit, her photographic technique was learned from the great photographers...
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New York :
Monacelli,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- "That intangible quality of chic" : early life & modeling, 1907-29
- "With strong-willed girls you let them do it" : a Parisian apprenticeship, 1929-32
- "I'd rather take a picture than be one" : New York and Egypt, 1932-39
- "Here and now resolve to shop courageously to look your best" : fashion photography in London, 1939-44
- "Who else can swing from the Siegfried Line to the new hipline?" : war and fashion reportage, 1944-46
- "But in peace time 'Vogue' was primarily a fashion magazine" : disenchantment and departure from fashion, 1946-77.