Summary
Lee Miller's childhood was filled with the kinds of dramatic incidents that would lead some biographers and arts writers to psychoanalyze her photographs. She was raped at age 7, expelled from several schools, and as a girl and young woman posed nude for her father, who was an amateur photographer.
In The Art of Lee Miller, soon to be released by Yale University Press, Mark Haworth-Booth rejects the obvious and has written a book that acknowledges Miller's early trauma, and then moves on.See the full content of this document
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Having It All Behind the Lens
Miller, born in 1907 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., had become a famous beauty by the late 1920s. Her stylized portrait, painted by Art Deco illustrator Georges Lepape, ran on a March 1927 cover of American Vogue. She appeared in an evening gown for a 1928 ad for Kotex sanitary napkins -- i...
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