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LeeMillerinColour
Runsuntil 13 Octoberat FarleysHouseand
Gallery,Chiddingly,EastSussex.Entranceto
thegalleryis free.OpeneverySunday.
LEEMillerwasbest-knownforhersurrealandstriking
monochromesurrealistimages,alongwithherfearless
warreportage.Howeverthisexhibitionconcentrates
onherextraordinarycolourphotography,withmanyof
theimagesneverbeforeseenoutsideof thearchives.
FarleysHouseis whereMillerlived,alongwithher
husband,theartist,historianandpoetRolandPenrose.
TheexhibitionincludesimagesusingtheTri-Carbro
processin herNewYorkstudiofrom 1933 before
colourfilmwasavailable.Latershewouldalso
workwiththenewlyinventedcolourreversalfilmto
documentherlifein Egypt.Asa contributortoBritish
Vogue, shealsohadaccesstolarge-formatcolour
film,withmanyof hershotsgracingthecover.
Evenwithouttheexhibition,it’swellwortha visit
tothisquirkylittlehomeof thesurrealists– findout
moreat farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk.AmyDavies© ROL AND PENROSE ESTATE
Imagine. Shoot. Create
By Annegien Schilling, Ilex Press, £16.99,
hardback, 159 pages, ISBN 978-1-78157-732-
AT JUST 19 years old, Annegien
Schilling has nearly a million followers on
Instagram (see fetching_tigerss). You
might expect a printed book to seem
old-fashioned for someone of this ilk,
but it seems clear that a published
tome is still an ambition for many.
The book provides an insight into how she creates
her fun and often surreal self-portraits, through simple
step-by-step instructions using the mantra of ‘imagine,
shoot, create’. This is a useful book for those who want
to embark on a portrait project but perhaps can fi nd
no willing participants. As well as showing you how to
‘imagine’ a concept and ‘shoot’ the scene, she also
talks you through the process of using Photoshop to
‘create’ the fi nished effect. Some of the fi nal photos are
a little twee, while others show a mastery of the genre
beyond what you’d expect from someone so young.
★★★★★ Amy DaviesAlso out now
The latest and best books from the
world of photography.naked human form, Newton didn’t shoot
his fi rst nudes until 1980, but he did so
with his usual aplomb in his stark ‘Big
Nudes’ studio series. As with much of his
work, his nude shoots later migrated to
outdoor locations.
It’s perhaps fair to say that the
photographic style as well as the
image content of Newton’s work doesn’t
appeal to everyone but somehow SUMO
seems an appropriate name for such a
mammoth work as it hints at Newton’s
status as one of the world’s true giants
of photography. Cool, controversial
and classic.
Steve FaircloughBenedikt Taschen (left) and Helmut Newton, Cologne, 1999
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