MONROE BY MAILER AND STERN

MONROE BY MAILER AND STERN

Genre : Biography and pictorial retrospective
Format : Height : 33,7cm - Width : 28,2 cm - Thickness : 39mm
Pages : 272
Languages : French

"This book is actually two books. It is both a biography and a pictorial retrospective of an actress who has undoubtedly lived her greatest love affair with the camera lens." Norman Mailer's 1973 comment in his biography, Marilyn.


TASCHEN has brought together Mailer's original text and the photographs taken by Bert Stern during the legendary Last Sitting, considered to be the most intimate photo shoot ever taken of Marilyn, to create a tribute to the image of a woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, evoked throughout the world and for an entire generation the absolute symbol of glamour and eroticism. But if her public adored her, her private life remained that of a lost little girl, desperately seeking love and security. Mailer's Marilyn is beautiful, tragic and complex. As he traces the actress's life - from her depressing childhood, her difficult early years, to her consecration, her chequered romantic life, to the mysterious circumstances of her death - she emerges as a symbol of the strange decade during which she ruled Hollywood unchallenged.


This book, designed by Lawrence Schiller, Mailer's collaborator on five of her books, combines the author's imposing text with Stern's photographs capturing Marilyn at age 36. Photographed for Vogue magazine at the Bel-Air Hotel, Marilyn had never revealed herself so intimately, never revealed herself so beautifully. Three weeks later, she was dead. Through this synthesis of a literary classic and a legendary photo shoot, Mailer and Stern lift the veil surrounding Marilyn - woman, star, sex symbol - offering a privileged look at an icon whose true personality remains enigmatic.

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