Lee Miller: A Woman's War - Tapa dura

'A significant addition to the current scholarship ... a welcome addition to our understanding of this brave woman and outstanding photographer' - Burlington Magazine 'Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words ... tells the story of this remarkable woman with great frankness' - The Times 'Highlighting the story beyond the battlefields, this is a fascinating collection of images and a fitting tribute to one of the 20th century's most important photographers' - Independent 'Proof that the photograph is often more powerful and intense than the moving image' - Observer (Books of the Year) 'A magnificent biography' - Literary Review

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 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 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 Miller’s photographs, many previously unpublished, are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of women’s roles within the landscape of war.

Table of Contents

The Ubiquitous Image: Antony Penrose · A Woman’s War: Hilary Roberts · 1. Women in Wartime Britain 1939–1944 · 2. Women in Wartime Europe: 1944–1945 · 3. Women and the Aftermath of War · 4. Chronology for Lee Miller: 1900–1977