Wrens in Camera

[Lee Miller]

During the Second World War Lee Miller was the official war photographer for Vogue magazine. The images contained in Wrens in Camera were commissioned by the Admiralty and show the female navy officers and workers fulfilling their war duties. There are signallers, technicians, trainers, housekeepers and transport crews. The whole is an important document of women's roles in war-time Britain. Wrens in Camera is the only book solely by Lee Miller published in her lifetime. Loosely inserted is an Admiralty pamphlet For Your Guidance. What to do on leaving the service, and how to do it and a discharge Naval Message from the Admiralty.



Lee Miller. Text by Miss K. Palmer. With an Introduction by Mrs. Laughton Mathews, D.B.E.. Hollis and Carter. London. 1945. First edition. Hardback, smalll quarto; blue cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 79 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. English. 255 x 195mm. 0.35kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light wear to jacket, light ruffling to forecorners and spine ends with slight loss, light soiling and toning to spine and rear panel, small 1cm tear to spine, small tape repair to verso at base of spine, not price-clipped; slight toning to top edge of cloth.