Lee Miller: Photographs by Antony Penrose (Author), Kate Winslet.
Do you know Lee Miller? I’ve been obsessed about her since I first read her biography years ago . What a woman !
‘ 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 with over one hundred of Miller’s finest works in a single volume has been released in anticipation of the film Lee starring Kate Winslet as Miller. Ooh can’t wait!
As Vogue writes “ In June 2020, after years of speculation, it was confirmed that Kate Winslet would take on the role of Lee Miller, British Vogue’s prolific World War II correspondent under the magazine’s formidable editor-in-chief Audrey Withers, in a new Sky Original film directed by Oscar-nominated auteur Ellen Kuras.
‘The hotly anticipated film will take inspiration from the biography The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose – Miller’s son with her second husband Roland Penrose, a historian and champion of the Surrealist movement . Alongside Winslet as Miller, Alexander Skarsgård will play Roland Penrose and Josh O’Connor will take on the part of Antony Penrose. Meanwhile, Andrea Riseborough will appear as Audrey Withers and Marion Cotillard as Solange D’Ayen, the fashion director of French Vogue who was another close ally of Miller’s.
‘Miller famously began her career as a model for American Vogue after Condé Nast himself prevented her from stepping in front of a car in Manhattan and brought her to meet then editor-in-chief Edna Woolman Chase. She later relocated to Paris to study photography under Man Ray – becoming his lover and muse for several years. Following the Blitz, she signed on to be British Vogue’s official war correspondent. Travelling to France shortly after D-Day, she captured the siege of St Malo; the liberation of Paris; and the opening of Dachau for the magazine’s pages. In spite of her professional success, she experienced depression throughout her life.
This evocative book collects Miller’s most famous documentary, fashion, and war works, as well as photographs of Miller. They are all carefully compiled by her son, photographer Antony Penrose, with a foreword by actress Kate Winslet, who will star as Miller in the film Lee.’
