Season 1, Episode 1
Lee Miller, ‘Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I)’ (c. 1929), image from leemiller.co.uk 
Miller, ‘Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting II)’ (c. 1929), image from leemiller.co.uk 
Man Ray, ‘Anatomies’ (1929) 
Man Ray, ‘Indestructible Object’ or ‘Object to Be Destroyed’ (1923, remade 1933, editioned replica 1965), Tate 
Man Ray, ‘Observatory Time: The Lovers’ (1932) 
Roland Penrose, ‘Lee Miller with Body Cast, known as “Bewitches Witch”‘ (1942) 
Man Ray, ‘Minotaur’ (1933), MoMA 
Man Ray, ‘The Return to Reason’ (1923) 
Photograph by Edward Steichen, Lee Miller in a Kotex ad (1928) 
Jo Spence, ‘Property of Jo Spence?’ (1982), Wellcome
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Emma and Christy look at Lee Miller’s photographs Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I and II (c. 1929) and talk about double mastectomies, fragmented bodies, feminist(?) art, Georges Bataille… and recipes for ‘cauliflower breasts’.
IMAGES DISCUSSED:
Lee Miller, Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I) (c. 1929)
Lee Miller, Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting II) (c. 1929)
Man Ray, Anatomies (1929)
Man Ray, Indestructible Object or Object to Be Destroyed (1923, remade 1933, editioned replica 1965)
Man Ray, Observatory Time: The Lovers (1932)
Roland Penrose, Lee Miller with Body Cast, known as ‘Bewitches Witch’ (1942)
Man Ray, Minotaur (1933)
Man Ray, The Return to Reason (1923)
Photograph by Edward Steichen, Lee Miller in a Kotex ad (1928)
Jo Spence, Property of Jo Spence? (1982)
REFERENCES:
Georges Bataille, ‘Informe,’ Documents 7 (December 1929), p. 382; see also Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, Formless: A User’s Guide (New York: Zone Books, 1997).
Margaret Olin, Touching Photographs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Hilary Roberts, Lee Miller: A Woman’s War (London: Thames & Hudson and the Imperial War Museum, 2015)
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (New York: Zone Books, 2007)
FURTHER READING:
Patricia Allmer, Lee Miller: Photography, Surrealism, and Beyond (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016)
Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller (Eiderdown Books, 2019)
becky e. conekin, ‘”Another Form of Her Genius”: Lee Miller in the Kitchen,’ Gastronomica 10, no. 1 (Winter 2010), p. 50-60.
Alyce Mahon, ‘Women Surrealists and the Still Life,’ in Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, ed. Patricia Allmer (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2009), p. 54-63.
Alicia Stubbersfield, ‘Lee Miller Takes a Photograph,’ Ambit no. 173 (Summer 2003), p. 51.
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