![]() ![]() Help of Miller’s son, Antony Penrose, who runs the Lee Miller Archives in England, she makes it clear why her subject was an undaunted original. She has an amused eye for fashion characters, then and now, and with the Conekin, a fashion historian and theorist, teaches European history at Yale. Conekin’s very engaging, nicely researchedīook is the first devoted to Miller’s fashion work. Miller has been the subject of a number of books and exhibition catalogs, and the muse for at least one fashion show (a 2007 Gucci collection by Frida Giannini). The Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, and the devastation of Western Europe. Then she returned to Europe and began a remarkable run that included war-time fashion work for British Vogue and, of course, her enduring images, as a war correspondent, of the liberation of When advertising slowed because of the Depression, she did In New York, she made a startlingly innovative image for a cosmetics company using three separate negatives, a mirror and fresh gardenias framing the objects. She opened her New York studio in 1932, in a space on East 48th Street, and by the early ’50s, had ceased taking pictures to spend time in the English countryside with her family, and do what Conekin’s new book, “Lee Miller in Fashion” (The Monacelli Press), She also packed a serious amount of work into a relatively short professional career, as Becky E. Credit Lee Miller Archives/The Monacelli Press ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |