*Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir By Leni and similar items

This is a First Picador USA Edition (February 1995) first printing of LENI RIEFENSTAHL: A MEMOIR, written by Leni Riefenstahl and published in the US by Picador USA. It is in fine+ condition with a very small crease on the bottom right corner of approximately the first 50 pages and some smudging on the right side of the book on the edge of the pages. One of the century's most remarkable and controversial women, Leni Riefenstahl is an artist of the first order. Dancer, actor, and photographer, she is best known as the director of Triumph of the Will, a film of a Nazi Party rally and Olympia, the classic account of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It is for these works of cinematic propaganda that Riefenstahl is revered and reviled. In this autobiography, she discusses her motivations, her history, her important friendships, and, most of all, her art. Along with insights into directing and camera work, Riefenstahl offers an emotional, powerful story of a woman who refuses to be defined by any terms other than her own.