Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Chargement... Lee Miller : Dans l'oeil de l'histoire, une photographepar Carolyn Burke
Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is an exhaustive biography, and I can totally understand why some readers would feel bogged down by it; a good editor could have pruned some of the content and eliminated the names of people who are only referred to a few times but who the reader has to look up in the index as a reminder when they recur many pages later. I do admire Carolyn Burke's dedication to painting a full portrait of Miller, a woman with a great lust for life who, like many women who participated on the frontlines of World War II, had difficulty adjusting to civilian life after the war ended. Miller was often overshadowed by her husband, Roland Penrose, and Burke doesn't shy away from probing into the reasons for that while also honoring the love they shared over several decades. And I like that Burke delves into Miller's passion for cooking, which sustained her throughout the postwar years and probably served as a form of therapy for what she had endured as one of the first war correspondents to photograph the liberation of the death camps (at one point, Miller had 2,000 cookbooks--I hope these were given to an archive!). Although Miller's subsequent disavowal of her past as a photographer and her difficulty with completing magazine assignments in the 1950s and '60s is a sad postscript to a freeform and inspiring career, Burke's careful writing illuminates the reasons for this and corrects the notion that Miller's postwar life and marriage to Penrose were complete repudiations of her promise. ( ) I wish I would stop reading reviews before finishing the book! I was intrigued and found her early years fascinating. The surreal years were surprisingly bland! One famous person after another, escapade after another, affair after affair....country after country yout need some type of score card to keep it all straight. I have laid it down, she is now a war correspondent and I find the story line here no way was engaging as MBW's biography. No where do I feel the atmosphere of danger and the horror or war. I feel that Lee herself is disengaged. I'll finish it later. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Prix et récompensesDistinctions
"Carolyn Burke reveals Lee Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cook - the last of the many dramatic transformations she underwent during her lifetime. A sleek blond bombshell, Miller was part of a glamorous circle in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s as a leading Vogue model, close to Edward Steichen, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso. Then, during World War II, she became a war correspondent - one of the first women to do so - shooting harrowing images of a devastated Europe, entering Dachau with the Allied troops, posing in Hitler's bathtub." "Burke examines Miller's troubled personal life, from the unsettling photo sessions during which Miller, both as a child and as a young woman, posed nude for her father, to her crucial affair with artist-photographer Man Ray, to her unconventional marriages. And through Miller's body of work, Burke explores the photographer's journey from object to subject; her eye for form, pattern, and light; and the powerful emotion behind each of her images." "An illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, independence and collaboration, Lee Miller: A Life is a study of a fascinating, yet enigmatic, cultural figure."--BOOK JACKET. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)770.92The arts Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography Photography Biography And History BiographyClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |