Marilyn Monroe

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[Harry Horndog]

MARILYN MONROE AND THE CAMERA

48 color, 104 duotone illustrations

Rather than posting each of the pages as separate files, I've directly extracted only the images using Photoshop; captions and other text were left behind. Neither cropped nor edited in any way, I then exported the untouched, unresized photos as high-quality JPGs, again using Photoshop.





Here's the introduction to this exceptional 1989 German publication:

Even before Norma Jeane Baker changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, she began her passionate and enduring love affair with the camera. In the summer of 1945, while employed in an aircraft factory, she was selected to model for photographs to promote the war effort. The rest, as they say, is history. Her unparalleled relationship with the camera was one in which each partner was equally enamored with the other, and it lasted nearly twenty years.

The full dimensions of that affair are superbly captured here for the first time. An unsurpassed photographic chronicle, Marilyn Monroe and the Camera brings together the most beautiful and unusual Marilyn Monroe photographs available – the early assignments for advertising and pinups, the film and publicity stills, the classic portraits by such notable photographers as Richard Avedon, Philippe Halsman, Cecil Beaton, and Bert Stern, the paparazzi shots from the hordes of photographers who followed her every move. These entrancing images provide a lavish and extraordinary tribute to the life of America’s legendary movie star.

In addition, an interview with Marilyn, conducted in 1960 by the French writer Georges Belmont and never before published in English, provides a fascinating view of the real woman behind the glamorous facade. She describes her lonely childhood, her climb to the top, and the daily workings of her everyday life in a charming, natural, and unguarded manner. Jane Russell, who costarred with her in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, enhances the portrait with an affectionate foreword offering a revealing glimpse of what it was like working on a set with Marilyn. A biography and filmography are included to make this one of the most complete illustrated books available.


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Here's a few Marilyn pics from my collection. I checked the thread and didn't see them posted. Enjoy.

**** NOTE: These images are UHQ. Very Big. ****