Bert Stern - Marilyn Monroe - The complete last sitting - 1992

Marilyn Monroe. the Complete Last Sitting. Text in German. (Hardcover) By Bert Stern (Author), Annie Gottlieb (Author).
32.7 x 28.9 x 4.6 cm. - 464 pp. - the loose dust jacket is slightly torn (see photos); the inner pages are in good condition.

The more than 2,500 photographs that make up this monumental, classic tribute to actress Marilyn Monroe were taken by the famous fashion photographer Bert Stern during a three-day session – the last time Marilyn posed for a camera. Six weeks later the actress was found dead in her home. In spite of the ominous facts surrounding this session, the images it produced project an eerie, almost dreamlike quality in contrast to all the photos ever taken of the film star. Before the camera, Marilyn was known for an astonishingly chameleon-like ability to transform herself into every role she would play. On these pages she is a goddess, siren, child, woman, femme fatale and a dream date. Yet there is also despair in these photos. In his fascinating foreword to the book, Bert Stern looks back on that memorable session and offers an revealing, naked portrait of Marilyn as a person — of a vulnerable, confused woman who, though she had given up control of her life at the height of her career — and of the fashion world of the early sixties, with its growing openness to drugs, sex, and art. From the glamorous, fashion-forward photos Vogue published in a black-and-white 'memorial' spread to the less restrained color photographs Stern captured from Marilyn during an intense, exhausting session, this collection encompasses almost every aspect of modern photography: portraits, fashion-driven, erotic, and artistic. But more than a comprehensive display of Stern’s immense talents, these photographs form a tribute to America’s first goddess. A woman we have invented, but whom we could never truly know.

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