Miller, Wrens in camera
Miller, Wrens in camera
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Miller, Lee (eig. Elisabeth). Wrens in Camera. (Introduction by V. Laughton Mathews). London, Hollis and Carter (1945). Gr.-8°. 79 p. with 145 illustrations based on photographs. Original cloth binding with cover vignette and illustrated dust jacket. Koetzle 302 f. Lederman/Yatskevich 112 f. – Einzige Ausgabe, selten. – Das zweite Buch der amerikanischen Fotografin. – Ausschließlich mit Aufnahmen von Frauen bei den englischen Streitkräften. – „Women played a vital role in the military during the Second World War, joining their male counterparts in many aspects of the Allied offensive against the German occupation of Europe. As the war was coming to an end, the importance of their contributions eroded amid fears that female workers might assume employment traditionally fulfilled by men. Lee Miller, a fashion and fine art photographer, who was also a wartime correspondent for Vogue magazine, sought to reserve this in her 1945 book ‚Wrens in Camera‘. As a commemoration of women’s wartime contributions and an appeal for women’s integration in the postwar economy, Wrens in Camera documents the British women of the Women’s Royal Navy Service (WRNS), better known as „Wrens.“ … ‚Wrens in Camera‘ destabilizes popular mid-1940s concepts of femininity and working women, advancing a view of the Wrens as female war heroes. The book succeeds primarilly due to Miller’s use of various photographic styles, garnered from her broad career in fashion, advertising, photojounalism and fine art photography. ‚Wrens in Camera‘, an often-overlooked photobook, not only conveys an image of servicewoman during the Second World War that readers could relate to, understand and even admire, but also presents a photographer who is an embodiment of these same qualities“ (Lederman/Yatskevich). – Schutzumschlag angestaubt, etwas fleckig und mit restaurierten Randläsuren, gutes Exemplar. – Only edition, rare. – The second book by the American photographer. – Exclusively with photographs of women in the British armed forces. – Dust jacket dusty, somewhat stained and with restored edge wear, good copy.
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