Lee miller author biography book

This biography worried me a little as I began it, but it sure got rolling, and I have taken it in fitfully so I intend to go back and study more closely the last half.

Lee Miller: A Life, Burke - The University of Chicago Press

But in general, my interest in Lee Miller was piqued reading a biography of Man Ray. She was the most important love in his life, and he never found a connection like her afterwards. Sure, she was an intriguing, androgynous model, which is what one takes interest in first, and she found her home among artists, living unconventionally, and enjoyed the freedom of their company.

But her biography is dominated throughout by a terrible shadow only in hinted at in the book about him, that book mentioned little more about her, besides her role in his life as paramour, and then shortly after, the scandal of a tragedy which involved her affair with a married man, and that man's wife committing suicide as a result.

She was painted as a sort of talented but cruel coquette, yet again.

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