A Surrealist before she even knew of the movement, Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the twentieth century. David E. Scherman, LIFE photographer and Miller's close friend, described her as "caustically brilliant, yet totally loyal, unpretentious, human and intolerant of sham. She was a consummate artist and a consummate clown; at once an upstate New York hick and cosmopolitan grande dame; a cold, soignée fashion model and a hoyden. . . . She was the nearest thing I knew to a mid-20th century renaissance woman." &nbsp; The Surrealist eye informed everything Miller did, and her work presents the world in a way that encourages us to view it in a different manner. Written and collected by her son Antony, Surrealist Lee Miller amasses more than one hundred full-page images from throughout the artist's life as an attestation to her wonderful way of seeing.

Surrealist Lee Miller

Arts & Photography

PENROSE, Antony

Individual Artists

Lee Miller Archives Publishing

Home Guard Manual of Camouflage

PENROSE, Roland

History & Criticism

One hundred photographs explore Lee Miller's prolific fashion photography during World War II.&nbsp; Lee Miller "has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue's history," wrote British Vogue editor Audrey Withers in the summer of 1941. Despite this, much of Miller's fashion photography--which dominated the pages of British Vogue during World World II--has since been forgotten or overshadowed by her subsequent war reportage. Drawn from a research base of nearly four thousand vintage negatives, this collection showcases more than one hundred stunning photographs from the war era, many of which have not been seen since they were first shot and published in the 1940s. Lee Miller's recently transcribed appointment diaries and accompanying text by British Vogue Archives's Robin Muir, fashion historian Amber Butchart, and Miller's granddaughter, Ami Bouhassane, provide a wealth of new information about the artist's prolific wartime fashion portfolio.&nbsp;

Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain

MUIR, Robin

Butchart, Amber

Bouhassane, Ami

A reproduction of a 1938 photobook Roland Penrose made for Lee Miller as they traveled the world at the outset of World War II. In 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller made a journey together through the Balkans. Penrose was a painter, author, and curator. Miller, previously a model, was a brilliant photographer. As they traveled, Penrose created pictures and took notes, and on their return produced a charming handmade photobook for Miller--a surrealist love poem, drawn from his own memories and records. This special facsimile edition of the book Penrose wrote for Miller has an important place in the history of surrealist literature, and it provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of two artists and their journey of discovery in a world that would soon be transformed forever.

The Road is Wider Than Long

Insights into the home of surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose.\nFollowing the austere and traumatic years of World War II, surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose made their home at Farleys in the Sussex countryside. Penrose, a painter, author, and collector, and Miller, a photographer and war correspondent, moved to Farleys not to settle down, but to create, entertain, and inspire. In this book their son, Antony Penrose, recalls visitors and occasions at Farleys with a fascinating insight into his parents' lives. This accessible book includes images of the array of visitors during the 1950s against the backdrop of Farleys as it transforms from a traditional farmhouse into a twentieth-century international hub of art with unexpected innovative decoration, surreal living, and daring.

Surrealist Weekends: Farleys in the Fifties

More than a cookbook this explores Lee Miller's life through the influence of food that transcends to a creative vehicle swapping from her camera to healing old wounds and empowering other women.

Lee Miller: A Life with Food, Friends & Recipes

The beautifully illustrated book of Love Letters between Lee Miller and Roland Penrose begins when they first met at a fancy dress party in Paris, June 1937. Through the letters it tracks their love affair, adventures, creative work, involvement with the surrealist art movement, scandal and laughs to the background of a world that is building up to the beginning of the Second World War.

Love Letters: Bound in Gold Handcuffs

Miller, Lee

The Home of the Surrealists - 75th Anniversary Edition: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their circle at Farley Farm

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Books by Lee Miller Archives Publishing

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Surrealist Lee Miller

Home Guard Manual of Camouflage

Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain

The Road is Wider Than Long

The Road is Wider Than Long

Surrealist Weekends: Farleys in the Fifties

Lee Miller: A Life with Food, Friends & Recipes

Love Letters: Bound in Gold Handcuffs

The Home of the Surrealists - 75th Anniversary Edition: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their circle at Farley Farm