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The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer7/4/2023 ![]() That Ray, who is close to 50, doesn’t come on to her means the world given Lee’s history-raped by a family friend as a young child and ogled by powerful men ever since. The only male in the room wearing a suit, Ray rescues her from their leering host and invites her to drop by his studio. After modeling couture for some of the best photographers in New York, she’s just 22 and come to the Left Bank to make art. And what a story! It starts with Lee’s first glimpse of Ray at a surrealist orgy she’s dragged to by new acquaintances. “The woman’s touch….A story only you can tell.” Cornered, Lee accepts-with one caveat: not his photos, hers. ![]() ![]() She’s expecting to get sacked when her editor suggests taking a pause to write about her years in Paris as Man Ray’s student and about some of his photos from that time. She’s forgotten the old boxes of photoprints she heaved up to the attic-including the one of her posing in Hitler’s bathtub-and now writes mainly about food, brilliantly, though she drinks so heavily she misses deadlines. Readers meet Lee in 1966, at the farm where she retreated with her British husband, a painter and curator, after documenting Nazi atrocities and the liberation of Europe as Vogue’s war correspondent. A portrait of Lee Miller, the American cover girl and war photographer whose wild spirit captivated Picasso, Cocteau, and other eminences in 1930s Paris. ![]()
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