Whitney Scharer
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Pub. Date
2019
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One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle. "A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." —Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
"I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist...
"I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist...
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"Ich würde lieber ein Bild machen, als eines zu sein" - zu dieser Erkenntnis kommt Lee Miller im Alter von zweiundzwanzig Jahren. Sie gibt ihre Karriere als Mannequin in New York auf und zieht nach Paris. Ohne Geld oder einen Plan, dafür aber mit der Kamera ihres Vaters. Inmitten der schillernden Künstlerwelt der 1930er Jahre verliebt sie sich in den ebenso genialen wie eifersüchtigen Man Ray, der sie als Assistentin einstellt und unterrichtet....
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Pub. Date
2019.
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376 pages ; 25 cm.
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She went to Paris to start over, to make art instead of being made into it. A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light tells the story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," she declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray....