ENJOY YOUR SUNDAY!

Mick and Jerry

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HAVE A GREAT SUMMER !

Amagansett 1958

Swollen - Bent

Marilyn Monroe - Arthur Miller

Photography: Sam Shaw

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HAVE A NICE WEEKEND !

Marilyn
Photo Magazine France November 1974

THE MARILYN MONROE TRIP

Bryan Ferry ... as time goes by

"Hundreds of artists have been hung on Marilyn Monroe ever since she died five years ago (including Dali, De Kooning, Lindner, Rauschenberg, and 38 other greats who participated in an Homage to Marilyn show at the Janis Gallery in New York last month.

Perhaps none has been more preoccupied with the image of Marilyn, however, than photographer Bert Stern who, through a quirk of fate, became the last man to photograph her.

Stern's portraits of Marilyn, shot at the Bel Air Hotel in Hollywood on June 21st,1962, are classic and have been published time and again.

'Still, I have never been entirely satisfied with them,'says Stern.

'Because of photography's technical limitations, they never quite communicated the dazzling image of Marilyn that existed in my mind's eye at the time I photographed her.'

As a result, over the past five years Stern has been experimenting with various new techniques that would enable him to capture and preserve the image of Marilyn he saw at the time he photographed her.

Just this past fall he hit upon the answer: an amalgam of the dramatic technique of serigraphy and the blazing colors of Day-Glo ink."

The editors of Avant Garde present Bert Stern's phantasmagoric vision of Marilyn Monroe

THE MARILYN MONROE TRIP

A portfolio of serigraphic prints by Bert Stern

Avant Garde 2

Photography: Bert Stern

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GREEN WITH ENVY

The Victoriana Coif

Michael of Helena Rubinstein handles hair like a length of satin

Cool Fashion

Emerald linen, cut to shoe a sun-polished triangle of back by Peck and Peck - Hat by Adolfo of Emme.

Jobere

Simplicity Pattern 1611

Simplicity Pattern 1609

Sportwhirl

Clare Potter

Oleg Cassini

Nettie Rosenstein

The Sheath - Talmack

Anthony Blotta

The Fichu Dress

The Fichu-cape buttoned into sleeveless in back, bow-tied in front.

Jean Patchett in Mainbocher

Anne St.Marie in Scassi

Priscilla of Boston

Anthony Perkins

Bob Willoughby

Little Girl Alias Femme Fatale

Cecil Beaton

Point-to-Point Fashion

Harper's Bazaar June 1956
Photography: Gleb Derujinsky

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BERT STERN - MARILYN REMEMBERED

Stardust

Marilyn Remembered:

A Photo Portfolio

By Bert Stern

"Marilyn progressed from model to starlet to featured player to star and, finally to superstar – the most famous of filmdom’s fabled sex symbols. But even the harshest of her critics have come to realize that she was far more than a sex symbol; they now acclaim her as an actress who had the potential for greatness."

"Always insecure about her beauty. (sic) She spent hours putting on her movie makeup and was always checking in the mirror to see that she still looked well.  And as she grew older, her insecurities increased.  Nobody could convince her that she had nothing to worry about for quite some time."

"Marilyn’s talent was as great as her beauty, some of her director’s claim that along with Brando, she was the most outstanding film star of her time.  Undeniably, the mixture of pathos and humor she exuded on screen was totally engulfing."

"Since Marilyn’s death, many actresses have tried and failed to claim her position as Hollywood’s reigning goddess.  But while fledgling starlets have come and gone,  Marilyn’s legendary beauty, the laughing incandescent loveliness of her film image lives on unsurpassed."

Marilyn Remembered:

A Photo Portfolio

By Bert Stern

Show Magazine September 1972 

MARILYN MONROE

JUNE 1926 - AUGUST 1962

ONCE A GREAT BEAUTY

BERT STERN
1929-2013
PHOTOGRAPHED GREAT BEAUTY

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