- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Schirmer / Mosel (July 31 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3888141915
- ISBN-13: 978-3888141911
- Product Dimensions: 32.7 x 28.9 x 4.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 3.7 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #290,030 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bert Stern / Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting
Bert Stern, the famous commercial and fashion photographer of the 60s, was the last to be granted a sitting by Marilyn Monroe six weeks before her tragic death. The three-day session yielded nearly 2,600 pictures—fashion, portrait, and nude studies—of indescribable sensual and human vibrancy, of which no more than 20 were published. And yet these few photographs ineradicably shaped our image of Marilyn Monroe.
This book presents the complete set of 2,571 photos. The monumental body of work by the master photographer and the Hollywood actress marks a climax in the history of star photography, both in quantity and quality. It is a unique affirmation of the erotic dimension of photography and the eroticism of taking photos, and it is the world’s finest and largest tribute to Marilyn Monroe.
Text by Bert Stern
Bert Stern, born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1929. In 1954 he opened his first studio in New York. Besides working for IBM, Vogue, Glamour, Life, Revlon, and Smirnoff, he is famous for his portraits of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Gary Cooper, Louis Armstrong, Catherine Deneuve, and Marilyn Monroe.
March 2006, hardcover 10 3/4 x 12 1⁄2 in. / 27.5 x 32 cm, 464 pages 2,571 photographs, 375 in color, ISBN 3888141915
From the Publisher
The more than 2,500 shots that make up this monumental classic tribute to actress Marilyn Monroe were taken by renowned fashion photographer Bert Stern over the course of a three-day sitting—the last time Marilyn would pose in front of a camera. Six weeks later, the actress was found dead in her home. Even despite the ominous facts surrounding this sitting, the images it produced project a haunting, almost dreamlike quality unlike any photographs ever taken of the starlet. In front of the camera, Marilyn was known to possess an incredible chameleon-like ability to transform herself into whatever role she was meant to play. In these pages she is goddess, siren, child, woman, femme fatale and dream date. Yet there is an air of desperation about these photos as well.
In his fascinating foreword to the book, Bert Stern looks back on that momentous sitting, offering a revealing, naked portrait of Marilyn the person—of a vulnerable, confused woman who although at the apex of her career, had relinquished control of her life—and of the fashion world of the early 1960s, with its new openness towards drugs, sex, and art. From the glamorous, sophisticated photos which Vogue would publish in a black-and-white “memorial” spread, to the less restrained color shots which Stern coaxed out of Marilyn during an intense, exhausting session, this collection covers nearly every aspect of modern photography: portraiture, fashion-driven, erotic, and artistic. But more than a comprehensive display of Stern’s immeasurable talents, these photographs combine to create an homage to America’s first goddess. A woman we invented, but whom we could never really know. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting (Hardcover)
This collection of photographs from Marilyn's last official sitting is haunting and extraordinary. The pictures show so many different sides of her, and I think that Stern did a fabulous job capturing them with the clothes, scarves, and props he provided. His introduction is interesting and gives the reader an idea of what it would be like to work with Marilyn in that way; however, he seems to fall under the Marilyn love spell, like every other man who encountered her, and becomes maudlin imagining a romantic encounter. I have to add that seeing the damage that Marilyn did to the negatives she didn't like gave me goosebumps; it is chilling to know that she thought so little of herself, especially so close to death.
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Wonderful,
This review is from: Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting (Hardcover)
Wonderful book, Amazing pictures! I highly recommend, even though it has a hefty price tag it is well worth it.. this is a HUGE book. With pretty much every page filled with high-quality photographs that are just gorgeous. Marilyn Monroe was a true beauty. She was a classic, and so is this book.
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A Visual Loveletter,
By HeyJudy "heyjudy" (East Hampton, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting (Hardcover)
MARILYN MONROE: THE COMPLETE LAST SITTING is a beautiful book about a beautiful woman. Let's face it, men of a "certain age," even when they themselves now are half-dead, still get excited at the very thought of Marilyn. Ms. Monroe exemplified America's concepts both of beauty, and of sex appeal, in the middle of the 20th Century. As a result, THE COMPLETE LAST SITTING makes a unique and most appreciated gift for this any member of this population. Photographer Bert Stern has used his camera to write Marilyn a visual love letter. Many of his shots of her are touching depictions of the woman whom she was in her heart, as opposed to the manufactured creature of "movie star" into which the entertainment industry had turned her.
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