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Lee Miller : a woman's war / Hilary Roberts ; introduction by Antony Penrose.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Thames & Hudson in Partnership with IWM, Imperial War Museums, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 223 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500518182
  • 0500518181
Other title:
  • Woman's war
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Contents:
Introduction: Lee Miller: the ubiquitous image -- Lee Miller: a woman's war -- Women before the Second World War -- Women in wartime Britain, 1939-1944 -- Women In wartime Europe, 1944-1945 -- Women and the aftermath of war -- Chronology.
Summary: Lee Miller photographed innumerable women during her career, first as a fashion photographer and then as a journalist during the Second World War, documenting the social consequences of the conflict, particularly the impact of the war on women across Europe. Her work as a war photographer is perhaps that for which she is best remembered; in fact, she was among the 20th century's most important photographers on the subject. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lee Miller: A Womans War tells the story beyond the battlefields of the Second World War by way of Miller's extraordinary photographs of the women whose lives were affected. Introductions by Hilary Roberts and Antony Penrose, Lee Miller's son, precede Miller's work, which is divided into chronological chapters. Miller's photographs, many previously unpublished, are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of women's roles within the landscape of war.
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Lee Miller photographed innumerable women during her career, first as a fashion photographer and then as a journalist during the Second World War, documenting the social consequences of the conflict, particularly the impact of the war on women across Europe. Her work as a war photographer is perhaps that for which she is best remembered--in fact she was among the most important photographers on the subject of the twentieth century. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lee Miller: A Woman's War tells the story beyond the battlefields of the Second World War by way of Miller's extraordinary photographs of the women whose lives were affected.



Introductions by Lee Miller's son, Antony Penrose, and author Hilary Roberts precede Miller's work, divided into chronological chapters: Women Before the Second World War; Women in Wartime Britain 1939-1944; Women in Wartime Europe 1944-1945; and Women and the Aftermath of War. Miller's photographs, many previously unpublished, are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of women's roles within the landscape of war.

"Published on the occasion of the major exhibition 'Lee Miller: a Woman's War' at the Imperial War Museum, London, 15 October 2015-24 April 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 218) and index.

Introduction: Lee Miller: the ubiquitous image -- Lee Miller: a woman's war -- Women before the Second World War -- Women in wartime Britain, 1939-1944 -- Women In wartime Europe, 1944-1945 -- Women and the aftermath of war -- Chronology.

Lee Miller photographed innumerable women during her career, first as a fashion photographer and then as a journalist during the Second World War, documenting the social consequences of the conflict, particularly the impact of the war on women across Europe. Her work as a war photographer is perhaps that for which she is best remembered; in fact, she was among the 20th century's most important photographers on the subject. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lee Miller: A Womans War tells the story beyond the battlefields of the Second World War by way of Miller's extraordinary photographs of the women whose lives were affected. Introductions by Hilary Roberts and Antony Penrose, Lee Miller's son, precede Miller's work, which is divided into chronological chapters. Miller's photographs, many previously unpublished, are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of women's roles within the landscape of war.

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