Friday, December 7, 10:30 am–5:30 pm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Carolyn Burke joins other speakers at “The Quintessential Lee Miller,” a day-long symposium on the occasion of the centenary exhibition, “The Art of Lee Miller.”
Friday, November 23, 8 pm
The Abbey Bookshop, 29, rue de la Parcheminerie, 75005 Paris
M° St. Michel/Cluny la Sorbonne: 01 46 33 16 24
Join us at the Abbey Bookshop to mark the French edition launch of Lee Miller, Une Vie/A Life by Carolyn Burke. Lee Miller illuminates an astonishing woman’s journey from art object to artist.
Tuesday, November 20, 7:30 pm
Brentano’s, 37 Avenue de l’Opéra, 75002 Paris
To reserve, please call: 01 42 61 50 52
Brentano’s welcomes Carolyn Burke, author of Lee Miller: On both sides of the camera.
« Mannequin vedette pour Vogue, maîtresse de Man Ray, amie de Charlie Chaplin et de Pablo Picasso, grande photographe . . . Une biographie et une exposition racontent les vies de Lee Miller, la nymphe au Rolleiflex. »
(Marc Lambron, Le Point)
October 15, 7 pm–9 pm
Hôtel l’Horset Opéra, 18 rue d’Antin, Paris
An Evening with Lee Miller
Starring author Carolyn Burke
Metro: Opéra
Tickets: 25 euros, complimentary appetizers, no-host bar
Reservations: 06-7098-1368 (after September 12) or terrance@paris-expat.com. Seating is limited and this event will sell out quickly — reserve today!
Model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, Miller was a fascinating and multifaceted woman. Part of a glamorous circle in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s that included Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso, she then became a war correspondent during World War II — one of the first women in that field — shooting harrowing images of a devastated Europe, entering Dachau with the Allied troops, posing in Hitler’s bathtub.
Carolyn Burke: art critic, translator and biographer of the poet Mina Loy: Becoming Modern.
If you are in London between September and December, visit the centenary Lee Miller exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Octobre 12, à 19 heures
Violette & Co., 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, Mo Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny.
Rencontre avec CAROLYN BURKE, de passage à Paris, à l’occasion de la parution de sa biographie: Lee Miller dans l’oeil de l’Histoire, une photographe (Autrement). Lee Miller (1907–1977), l’une des photographes essentielles du vingtième siècle eut un destin remarquable. Carolyn Burke, biographe et critique d’art américaine, rencontra Lee Miller en 1977. Sa biographie a été distinguée par le New York Times.
June 8–10: Book Group Expo, San Jose, California
McEnery Convention Center
For details and bookings, see www.bookgroupexpo.com
Sunday, June 10, 11:30 am–12:30 pm
Salon A, Sainte Claire Hotel, San Jose
“Picture This: Literature Inspired by Art”
May 28–June 3
Sydney Writers’ Festival
For final schedule see www.swf.org.au
Thursday, May 31, 2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Sydney Theatre, Richard Wherrett Studio
Event 92: Intellectual Feasting
Carolyn Burke and Helen Greenwood in conversation
Carolyn Burke’s biography of legendary photographer and muse of Man Ray, Lee Miller, reveals that after World War II, Miller became a Cordon Bleu chef and invented many rather Surrealist-inspired recipes. Burke’s biography includes a “Dinner for Eight” with recipes for some unlikely culinary creations with which Miller delighted friends and unnerved food writers. She discusses the sensuous, artistic and intellectual appeal of cooking with someone who knows it well, Sydney Morning Herald food writer Helen Greenwood.
Friday, June 1, 5 pm–6 pm
Sydney Theatre
Writing Twentieth Century Lives
Hazel Rowley and Carolyn Burke in conversation
Hazel Rowley's Tête-à-Tête offers the first dual portrait of a legendary couple: passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Carolyn Burke’s Lee Miller is a portrait of the extraordinary and controversial beauty, fashion model, Surrealist muse, assistant and model of Man Ray, Vogue photographer, war photographer, sexual bohemian, and more.
For latest news, email Susanne@bookgroupexp.com.
May 25–26
Auckland (New Zealand) Writers & Readers Festival
For more on venues and bookings, see www.writersfestival.co.nz
Friday, May 25, 11 am–12 pm
ASB Theatre, Level 2 at The Aotea Centre, THE EDGE®
An Hour with Carolyn Burke
“A woman has to be a monster to be an artist,” says a character in Carolyn Burke’s intriguing Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera. Surrealist muse, staggering beauty who lived wild and fast, Lee Miller took over the camera and recorded the horrors of war. “I got in over my head. I could never get the stink of Dachau out of my nostrils,” Miller said in old age. In this illustrated talk, Carolyn Burke lays bare this fascinating woman — a pioneer artist in a largely macho world.
Saturday, May 26, 11 am–12 pm
Lower NZI Room, Level 1 at The Aotea Centre, THE EDGE®
Giant Footprints in the Sand
Biography reconstructs where giants once walked and climbed. Hagiography is the worshipful account of fame. Following in Edmund Hillary’s footsteps, Alexa Johnston gave us insight into an icon. Christine Cole Catley resurrected Beatrice Hill Tinsley, a little-known New Zealand woman astronomer of genius. Carolyn Burke created a multidimensional portrait of the remarkable photojournalist and Surrealist muse, Lee Miller. Where does biography end and hagiography start?
Saturday, May 26, 3:30 pm–4:30 pm
ASB Theatre, Level 2 at The Aotea Centre, THE EDGE®
Loose Women
Mary Wesley led a wild life. Lee Miller seemed constitutionally incapable of monogamy. In many ways these privileged well-bred upper-class women acted in a contemporary manner. Was it class that gave them their freedom? Did each woman pay a high psychological price? Patrick Marnham and Carolyn Burke talk about the remarkable Mary Wesley and the extraordinary Lee Miller — both sexually enfranchised women whose professional lives provided ballast against the anarchy within.
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