Objects were photography's earliest subject. The medium used the laws of chemistry and physics to create superbly detailed descriptions of the material world that far surpassed all the earlier graphic media. Photography was described by its British inventor, W.H.F.
This definitive book brings together all the major vintage prints for the first time, including sensational works never published before, rare and revealing drawings and an extraordinary collage from 1937.Show more She conceived and exhibited many Surrealist-inspired photographs of haunting originality she was a portraitist of genius and an inspired and daring war photographer. Lee Miller is unique in performing with brilliance on both sides of the camera. Arriving in Paris in 1928, she became the apprentice, collaborator and muse of Man Ray and played a leading role in a masterpiece of Surrealist cinema, Jean Cocteau's "The Blood of a Poet" (1931). Rges Lepape drew her for a Vogue cover in 1927. Miller was photographed constantly by her father, Theodore and in the 1920s by outstanding New York photographers such as Arnold Genthe and Edward Steichen, while Geo Lee Miller (1907-77) was not only one of the great beauties of the twentieth century but one of its most remarkable photographic artists.
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