Pre-order, published April 2024.
Rare, edition of just 75 collector’s hardback copies, signed by author Antony Penrose and beautifully presented in a bespoke, gold-foiled slipcase.
This special anniversary edition of the book celebrates 75 years since Lee Miller and Roland Penrose transformed Farleys into an artistic haven for the most influential and important creatives of the 20th Century. With updated, commissioned photography of rooms and items in the collection usually closed to the public, a new foreword by Leonora Carrington academic Joanna Moorehead, and a new chapter about Farleys as it is today, this edition promises to transport readers to The Home of British Surrealism.
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LMA Publishing makes books inspired by the wealth of material held in the Lee Miller Archives and the Collection held at Farleys, home of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose.
The Lee Miller Archives began its publishing arm gently by updating and reprinting The Home of the Surrealists by Antony Penrose in 2016, formerly published by Francis Lincoln. Partnering with the Norwegian publishers Grapfrukt Forlag for the following years’ publication was more ambitious, and realised Lee Miller’s dream of publishing her own cookbook. The multi-award winning publication Lee Miller: A Life with Food Friends and Recipes by Ami Bouhassane is now in its 3rd edition.
Discovering a thirst for more material based on Lee Miller’s photography, in 2019 LMA Publishing started a collectable series of full-page photograph-led publications that highlight sections of Lee Miller’s work, such as Surrealist Lee Miller by Antony Penrose and Grim Glory: Lee Miller’s Britain at War by Ami Bouhassane (2020).
LMA Publishing aims to continue to create the most interesting and attractive books possible. As well as publishing new material, LMA Publishing strives to keep important publications that relate to Lee Miller and Roland Penrose available and accessible. In 2020 we reissued Roland Penrose’s biography, The Friendly Surrealist with an additional 45 works by the artist added, and in 2021 facsimile copies of his Surrealist photo book The Road is Wider Than Long originally published in 1938 and its maquette were added to the LMA Publishing catalogue. 2023 saw the publication of the acclaimed collection of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose’s love letters, Love Letters Bound in Gold Handcuffs.
This special anniversary edition celebrates 75 years since Lee Miller and Roland Penrose transformed a Sussex farmhouse into an artistic haven for the most influential creatives of the 20th Century. Including updated, commissioned photography of the rooms and collection, a new foreword by Leonora Carrington biographer, Joanna Moorhead, and an additional chapter about Farleys as it is today, Antony Penrose’s ‘The Home of the Surrealists’ not only offers an intimate tour of his childhood house but celebrates Farleys as a hub of artistic experimentation then and now.
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Published 2023.
The urgency and intimacy of the writers is palpable in this collection of letters between Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, as they embark on a long-distance romance. Lee and Roland’s letters provide us with a supporting cast of some of the greatest names in 20th century art, including Dora Maar and Picasso, Nusch and Paul Eluard, Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, and Ady Fidelin and Man Ray.
Through nearly three hundred pages of love letters discover how a deepening relationship produced some of the world’s best love art and photography. These never-before-published letters have been read by only a handful of people since they were first written. The books contains essays from scholars to contextualize the era, plus photography by both Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, much of which has never been published before.
ISBN: 9781914298059 English
Buy nowThis special edition is limited to only 20 copies. The hardback book comes in a handmade case with gold-foiled embossing details. Enclosed in the special edition is also a limited c-type print, stamped with a special Lee Miller Archives authentication stamp, as well as three facsimile copies of original letters in Lee and Roland’s hand.
Through nearly three hundred pages of love letters discover how a deepening relationship produced some of the world’s best love art and photography. These never-before-published letters have been read by only a handful of people since they were first written. The words on the pages of a love letter carry the nuances and emotions of love and desire, passion and anger in a deeply confidential way.
Buy nowContaining more than a hundred recipes, this cookbook also explores Lee Miller’s life through the influence of food and how it ascends to becoming the creative vehicle that she eventually swaps her camera for and uses to build bridges, heal old wounds, and to empower other women. Much has been written about the varied forms of her creativity but Lee Miller’s achievement as a gourmet chef is usually left to being an endnote. Her granddaughter Ami Bouhassane sees this part of her life as Miller’s longest battle and most extraordinary personal accomplishment in every sense.
Buy nowA Surrealist before she even knew of the movement, Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the twentieth century. The Surrealist eye informed everything Miller did, and her work presents the world in a way that encourages us to view it in a different manner. Written and collected by her son Antony, Surrealist Lee Miller amasses more than one hundred full-page images from throughout the artist’s life as an attestation to her wonderful way of seeing.
ISBN: 9780 953 23 8934 English
ISBN 9780 953 23 8941 Italian
Arriving in Britain just as war was declared Lee Miller, an American with no permit to work, used her camera as her principle means of combat during WW2. Before Lee left Britain to report in Europe she covered the Blitz, civilians braving the destruction around them and their contributions to the war effort as well as wartime fashion, camouflage and women in the armed forces on the home front.
ISBN: 9780 953 23 8965 English
In this moving, revealing and highly readable memoir, Antony Penrose has composed a fitting tribute to his father, which also faces up to some of the more controversial aspects of Roland Penrose’s life. Antony Penrose is the son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and cofounder of the Lee Miller Archives. He is the author of the biography The Lives of Lee Miller and editor of Lee Miller’s War.
ISBN: 9780 953 23 89-5 English
Photographer Lee Miller and artist Roland Penrose moved to Farleys in Sussex not to settle down but to create, entertain and inspire. In this new publication, their son Antony Penrose recalls the golden years of the 1950’s with a fascinating insight into his parents’ lives, as they transformed a traditional farmhouse into a hub of surreal living where the walls were lined with artworks by famous friends and visitors.
Buy nowA beautiful coffee-table book looking at Lee Miller’s extraordinary contributions to the pages of Vogue before becoming a war correspondent. Many of the images have not been seen since they were taken in the 1940’s. Includes essays but Robin Muir, writer, curator and former picture editor at British Vogue, and Amber Butchart, fashion historian and author who specializes in the historical intersections between dress, politics, and culture.
ISBN: 9780 9532389 8 9 English
Special facsimile copy of the typeset version of the Surrealist photo-book, ‘The Road is Wider than Long’ by Roland Penrose. Written as a surrealist love poem, the book takes it’s inspiration from the Lee Miller and Roland Penrose’s 1938 journey through the Balkans.
This edition is a replica of the first edition produced by Roland in 1939 using different fonts, and embellished with imaginative illustrations created especially for Lee Miller.
Buy NowA facsimile of the the handwritten version of Roland Penrose’s ‘The Road is Wider than Long’ Surrealist photobook.
In 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller made a journey together through the Balkans. On his return to England Roland produced a handmade photobook containing a Surrealist love poem drawn from his memories and pictures from their travels.The following year he would create and print a typeset version based on this book which has today an important place in the history of Surrealist photobooks.
Buy NowA set of both versions of ‘The Road is Wider than Long’, the first British Surrealist photobook. Includes the facsimile of the hand-written version and the typeset version first published in 1939.
In 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller made a journey together through the Balkans. On his return to England Roland produced a handmade photobook containing a Surrealist love poem drawn from his memories and pictures from their travels, before creating a printed typeset version.
Buy NowA facsimile of the practical manual, discussing the necessity for camouflage. Originally published in 1941 and “Officially approved by the War Office.”
In 1941, Penrose became a gamechanger when The War Office published the Home Guard Manual of Camouflage. In its pages, Penrose showed how to accomplish seemingly impossible visual deceptions: While Penrose, a keen naturalist, drew on influences in the natural world, his Surrealist passion for mimicry is apparent throughout the book. Patterns, textures, shading: all these artistic devices now took on serious military currency.
Buy NowLee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain: 'This gorgeous book brings together 130 images by Lee Miller, offering an in-depth look at how her photography developed during the Second World War – and how she influenced Vogue.'
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'Most of us have played a version of that parlour game that involves devising a fanciful dinner party peopled by the illustrious dead. But no one ever questions who would do the cooking. At my own fantasy feast, it would certainly be Lee Miller.'
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