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Unknown author. Marilyn Monroe Puckering Lips, 1956.

After an exhausting flight from the West Coast, Marilyn Monroe arrived at Idlewild Airport and, despite her fatigue, gifted photographers with an image that would become a 20th-century icon: puckered lips in an impromptu kiss. The shot was taken just one day after her thirtieth birthday, at a time when rumors of her romance with playwright Arthur Miller filled the press, though she kept a telling silence.

The power of this photograph lies in its spontaneity: a fleeting moment that reveals both the intimacy and magnetism of one of the most universal figures of popular culture. Today it stands as a historical document and a symbol of media myth-making around the star.

'Copyright Bettmann / Corbis' in the lower right corner. Total dimensions: 28,0 x 24,0 cm on thick semi-matte paper. Very Fine condition.

This photograph belongs to the lineage of great 20th-century photographers of celebrities and cultural icons such as Richard Avedon, Philippe Halsman, Eve Arnold, Cecil Beaton, Ed Feingersh, Milton H. Greene, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Capa, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others.





Photolithography - Not signed - © Bettmann / Corbis

Unknown - Marilyn Monroe Puckering Lips, 1956

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