Andre de Dienes - American nude photography - 1952

Andre de Dienes (1913-1985) was a renowned fashion and nude photographer. When he was not working as a fashion photographer, Dienes traveled across the United States photographing Native American culture, including the Apache, Hopi and Navajo reservations and their inhabitants. Unsatisfied with his life as a fashion photographer in New York, Dienes moved to California in 1944, where he began to specialize in nudes and landscapes. In addition to photographing Marilyn Monroe, Dienes also photographed such notable actors as Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Reagan, Jane Russell, Anita Ekberg and Fred Astaire.
This book is a rare Japanese edition from 1952.
The book has a broken cover, as can be seen in the second and last photograph.