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Norman Mailer. Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
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Norman Mailer. Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
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"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a
pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair
was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973
biography, Marilyn. Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text
with Bert Stern's photographs from the legendary Last
Sitting-widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe
ever taken-to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the
time of her death in 1962, was the world's most famous, a symbol of
glamour and eroticism for an entire generation. But though she was
feted and adored by her public, her private life was that of a
little girl lost, desperate to find love and security. Mailer's
Marilyn is beautiful, tragic, and complex. As Mailer reflects upon
her life-from her bleak childhood through to the mysterious
circumstances of her death-she emerges as a symbol of the bizarre
decade during which she reigned as Hollywood's greatest female
star. This book, conceived by Lawrence Schiller, Mailer's
collaborator on five works, combines the author's masterful text
with Stern's penetrating images of the 36-year-old Marilyn.
Photographed for Vogue magazine over three days at the Bel-Air
Hotel, Marilyn had never allowed such unfettered access, nor had
she looked so breathtakingly beautiful. Six weeks later,
mysteriously, she was dead. In this bold synthesis of literary
classic and legendary portrait-sitting, Mailer and Stern lift the
veils of confusion surrounding Monroe-the woman, the star, the sex
symbol-and offer profound insight into an iconic figure whose true
personality remains an enigma even today.
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