Marilyn Monroe #1

[ink_dot]

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[Annu]

oh thank you ink_dot. Those are amazing.. maybe from Last sitting? Marilyn looks adorable and beautiful. wow!

 

[ink_dot]

no problem Annu

 

[gallianoke]

she has a scarf on her belly, didn't know that

 

[gallianoke]

she has a scarf on her belly, didn't know that

I meant scar although the scarf is also true

 

[Platinum Blonde]

Thank you so much for posting those beautiful pictures of Marilyn Ink dot!
The Complete Last Sitting by Bert Stern is the photo book that I want the most with Marilyn.

 

[Alpha Femme]

Thank you so much for posting those beautiful pictures of Marilyn Ink dot!
The Complete Last Sitting by Bert Stern is the photo book that I want the most with Marilyn.

i have that book, it is beautiful!

here are some more pics of marilyn...

http://gatas.mdig.com.br/index.php?itemid=579

 

[Annu]

she has a scarf on her belly, didn't know that

yeah I think that it comes when her appendix cut. She hoped that doctor made only very small cut as possible. I don't know it's true

I want complete Last sitting too!

 

[Orchide]

yeah I think that it comes when her appendix cut. She hoped that doctor made only very small cut as possible. I don't know it's true

I want complete Last sitting too!

actually, her appendix scar is much lower and fainter as that happened years before.
I knew she had just freshly had a surgery before this photo session but couldn't remember what for so I looked it up- it was for her gall bladder.
Here is an eloquent post someone made who went to see this Bert Stern show recently:

Last week end, I went to see an exhibit of 56 pictures, taken from the 2,200odd Bert Stein took during what became the two last sittings Marilyn did.

And, well, I must confess I miss my words here. I had seen fac-simile of there pics over the years, in various magazines. I knew Stein was the last photographer to have caught Marilyn's appearance before she choose (but was it really a choice of hers?) to head for a better world. The pics appeared in Vogue a few days after she….
Actually, there were two sittings, since Vogue magazine's editors thought the first one were far too… underdressed for their readers. So Bert went for a second try; and after he was done with the glossy, "dressed" sitting, he had all the assistants, dressers, make-up-artists leave the scene and he remained alone with her. Alone, just Marilyn, himself, and the camera (anyone who did some naked act knows what I'm talking about: the camera is a person in this bizarre triangle... the model, the photographer, the camera…). What happened next is just… pure bliss… Marilyn was just… so sexy. Sensuality, womanhood, femaleness oozing from every inch of her skin. It's one ting to look at pictures in magazines; it's an entire different business to glare at those in real, life-size pictures.

And I was taken flabbergasted. It really struck me in the belly, like a well-aimed punch. Not because of her beauty. Not because of the neatness of the pictures. I've seen better pictures of naked women. I know of better photographers. But what we have here is the unique, exclusive, special, account of the gathering of a desire (Bert Stein's) and the need-for-love (Marilyn's). Such instants only happen once, and he was there, ready, camera at hand. And 44 years afterwards, we are still here to witness what happened between them. We may be called voyeurs. But actually we aren't. Merely witnesses of a unique moment of desire, lust and modesty (remember the camera…).

Beyond the veils, the jewels, all the artifices, I was really moved by one single detail, the most intimate detail she let Bert Stein, and all Vogue readers, see. The scar she bores right under her ribcage (she had her gall bladder removed just weeks before –and while I write this, I wonder how odd, un-star-like it is to mention Marilyn Monroe's gall bladder. Silverscreen stars have no gall bladders, do they?.). Indeed, this scar is so touching; it brings MM so close to us. She may be so sexy, so glamorous, so wanton, so stunning; she bears this scar nevertheless. A scar that brings her so close, so near to us, poor mortals….A scar that I wished (if only, she died before I was born – just an other oddity of her bene- or malevolent spell over mankind).

On another note, my good friend is a singer/songwriter and she loves MM too.
She was recently in Paris recording her next single which is called "Marilyn Monroe" . I heard the rough cut and this song is so pure Marilyn tribute...haunting and sad and lovely and kinda cowboy sounding (made me think of Roslyn in The Misfits). When she finishes tinkering with it, I will put up a link to the sound clip of it so all you MM fans can take a listen.
Anyway, when she was in Paris, she also took in the gallery opening of The Last Sitting/Bert Stern and just like this person above, she told me nothing prepares you to see huge raw, unretouched photos this up and close. She said it made her become emotional and so touched.
She said seeing blemishes, moles, lines and her scar so revealed made MM that much more of a beauty.
In an instant, MM became flesh and blood for her.
I am hoping this show comes to LA b/c I have to see it
She brought me back a flyer from the show- its MM with the roses over her chest winking.

 

[Platinum Blonde]

Alpha Femme: Thanks for linking that.
A lot of people think that The Complete last sitting by Bert Stern is very expensive. But I don't think so. 100 dollars or something for about 3000 pictures I don't think is that much.

 

[Lily530]

Anyway, when she was in Paris, she also took in the gallery opening of The Last Sitting/Bert Stern and just like this person above, she told me nothing prepares you to see huge raw, unretouched photos this up and close. She said it made her become emotional and so touched.
She said seeing blemishes, moles, lines and her scar so revealed made MM that much more of a beauty.
In an instant, MM became flesh and blood for her.
I am hoping this show comes to LA b/c I have to see it
She brought me back a flyer from the show- its MM with the roses over her chest winking.

Reading this gave me the chills. What an experience that must have been.

 

[Toulouse Monroe]

Oooo, I saw The Last Sitting exhibition some 2 years ago, here in Slovenia.
It was breathtaking.

 

[nmyngan]

 

[chanelnumber5]

i was wondering if you guys could help me, its my friends 16th birthday coming up and shes a huge marilyn fan too. so for her card im doing an A4 collage of marlyin and i was wondering if someone could tell me which are the classic marlyin photos i should include. thanks so much if anyone can help me id be so greatful to you if you could just give me some pointers.

 

[Ziegfeld Girl]

i was wondering if you guys could help me, its my friends 16th birthday coming up and shes a huge marilyn fan too. so for her card im doing an A4 collage of marlyin and i was wondering if someone could tell me which are the classic marlyin photos i should include. thanks so much if anyone can help me id be so greatful to you if you could just give me some pointers.

Some of Marilyn MOnroe's most iconic photos:

• Marilyn in the white dress standing over the subway grate in The Seven Year Itch.
• Any photo from Marilyn's last sitting photographed by Bert Stern.
• Not a photo but Andy Warhol's portrait of Marilyn Monroe is a very classic image of her.
• Any photo of Marilyn wearing the pink dress she wore in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes during the Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend number.
• Any image of Marilyn Monroe from Some Like It Hot.

Sorry if my suggestions have been a bit vague but Marilyn Monroe is one of the most photographed celebrities so it is hard to make a small selection of classic Marilyn Monroe images. I hope I've helped though.

 

[Platinum Blonde]

Oh I would love to answer to that question. I agree with your suggestions.
But I would like to add two of Milton Green's pictures.
One is from what is called the ballerina sitting I think and the other one is from the set of the movie Bus Stop.
The picture that I posted in 507 on page 26 I think is a Marilyn pictures that is considered very iconic.

 

[Platinum Blonde]

And also this one I don't know how to post two or more pictures in a message.Yet
Source for both pictures/posters: Poster Net

 

[Whitelinen]

I'd add some of her "sad" pictures...I always think these studio pics are just surface and too plastic.

 

[iJustWalk.]

a lot of these are probs reposts, but someone just posted this whole lot on hollywoodsbest

 

[iJustWalk.]