Surrealist Lee Miller

Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the 20th century; her Surrealist eye informed everything she did. Her work presents the world in a way that encourages us to view it in a different manner. Surrealist before she knew of the movement, Lee Miller was ‘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 a mechanical ‘tinker’, in the sense that her friend [the artist] Alexander Calder once called himself ‘just a tinker’. She was the nearest thing I knew to a mid-20th century renaissance woman,’ described David E. Scherman, LIFE photographer and her very close friend. Format: Softcover Dimensions: 7 x 5.7 x 0.6 in. Pages: 157 Illustrations: 2 color illustrations; 105 black and white illustrations