
Lee Miller
Photography, Surrealism, and Beyond
Patricia Allmer(Author)
Manchester University Press
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-5261-1667-3 (ISBN)
Description
Lee Miller: Photography, surrealism, and beyond offers a major new critical discussion of the work of one of the most significant twentieth-century photographers. Applying art-theoretical analyses and insights afforded by previously unseen material in archives and collections, Patricia Allmer undertakes revisionary readings of many of Miller's works, including Portrait of Space, Severed Breast from Radical Mastectomy and the famous series of war photographs produced for Vogue. At the same time she sheds new light on Miller's relations with surrealist groups and American avant-gardes, on her experiences in Paris, Egypt and World War II Europe and on her critically neglected post-war activities. Above all, Lee Miller: Photography, surrealism, and beyond focuses critical attention on the works themselves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
120 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-1667-3 (9781526116673)
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Person
Patricia Allmer is Chancellor's Fellow at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Content
1. Refocusing Miller 2. Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting 3. Four Saints in Three Acts 4. Shadows of herself: Miller, Picasso and collage 5. Apertures onto Egypt 6. 'Special works': reading Miller's war photography 7. The ruins of representation: Miller's war photography and the Third Reich 8. Afterimage Index