{"product_id":"gisela-torres-what-lee-wore","title":"Gisela Torres: What Lee Wore signed","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eNew York-born, London-based artist Gisela Torres was co-leading a Surrealist photography workshop at Farleys House and Gallery, the former residence of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, when she decided to explore the grounds on a break between sessions. She came upon a small outbuilding and peered through the window, only to encounter an eerie scene: a storage box covered in a mountain of tissue paper, and two rails of white garment bags, lined up as if in a queue. She’d stumbled upon the clothing archive of Lee Miller, en route to archival storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFor Torres, it was a quasi-unearthly encounter, these materials charged with a strong sense of Miller’s aura. She was eventually granted further access to the collection, which she began to photograph with both polaroid and digital cameras. The resulting images have a gauzy, hallucinatory quality, the perspective shifting between close ups, the terrain narrowed to a series of lines and textures, and wider shots in which bodily forms shift and dance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eRather than a catalogue of outfits, \u003cem\u003eWhat Lee Wore\u003c\/em\u003e explores clothing as a vessel for memory, and archival storage as a charged space of possibility. It questions what remains when the garment outlasts the body, and reimagines the clothing archive as a landscape of ghostly encounters and latent intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat Lee Wore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003ePublisher,Year: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChateau International, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Essay by Rosalind Jana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003ePhotographer: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGisela Torres\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eFormat: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eSize: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e19\u003c\/span\u003e x 26 cm, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9781838045050\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TPG Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56705317831036,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2244\/5351\/files\/WhatLeeWorecover_50b0aa8b-936c-4f96-be8d-835b4dbb1598.jpg?v=1777643784","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/products\/gisela-torres-what-lee-wore","provider":"TPG Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}