Lee Miller: A Woman's War

About this book

The first in-depth look at Lee Millers perspective on women in the Second World War as seen through her photography and commentary from experts in the field 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 rememberedin fact she was among the most important photographers on the subject of the twentieth century. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum Lee Miller: A Womans War tells the story beyond the battlefields of the Second World War by way of Millers extraordinary photographs of the women whose lives were affected. Introductions by Lee Millers son Antony Penrose and author Hilary Roberts precede Millers work divided into chronological chapters: Women Before the Second World War; Women in Wartime Britain 19391944; Women in Wartime Europe 19441945; and Women and the Aftermath of War. Millers photographs many previously unpublished are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of womens roles within the landscape of war. 156 illustrations