(Paperback)

First full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. An examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951s Festivals exhibitions and events. Covers the Festivals history and historiography, purpose, representations of the future and past, the role of London and the local, the British Empire and finally its legacy.

(Hardback)

Lee Miller was a Vogue cover girl, Man Ray's lover, the first photojournalist at the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald, and one of the important female photographers of the 20th century. This book gives us a wide lens view on Miller's fashion photography. It shows how her fashion photographs were a combination of wit, art and modernist edge.