![]() ![]() ![]() She collected and invented recipes, often based on her extensive travels and sometimes as practical jokes and rebukes. For many of them she created ““food pictures,”” some inspired by their own works of art. The first book to focus on how Lee Miller’s work as a model and fashion photographer illuminated both her life and the history of fashion from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The home she shared with her husband, Roland Penrose, in the English countryside was frequently filled with weekend guests drawn from the international modern art world. This summer she is completing a book, Lee Miller in Fashion, Thames & Hudson (2013), and at work on her next big book, Pretty Hard Work: A History of Fashion. Generally overlooked, if not overtly dismissed, Lee Miller's gourmet phase in the 1950s and 1960s is discussed in this article as ““another form of her genius.”” Always ahead of her time, Miller was a mezza maven and a tapas enthusiast. In 1957 Miller passed the Cordon Bleu course at their Paris school. In WWII she served as British Vogue's official war correspondent and was one of the first photographers to enter liberated Dachau and Buchenwald. Conekin available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. The mid-thirties found her with her own successful photographic studio back in Manhattan. In the early thirties she was Man Ray's muse, student, and lover in Paris, where she also worked as both photographer and model for Paris Vogue, as well as for numerous courtiers, including Patou and Scheperelli. Lee Miller was a Vogue cover girl in New York in the mid-to-late 1920s. ![]()
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