We all know Marilyn Monroe as an American performing artist and model. She was acclaimed for playing “moronic blonde” characters and got to be a standout amongst the most mainstream sex images of the 1950s, significant of the period’s states of mind towards sexuality. In spite of the fact that she was a top-charged on-screen character for just 10 years, her movies netted $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She keeps on being viewed as a noteworthy mainstream culture symbol.
On July 13, 1962, photographer George Barris directed a photograph shoot with Marilyn Monroe at a shoreline in Santa Monica. The subsequent photos would have been for a book, “Marilyn: Her Life In Her Own Words”;however, Three weeks after the photoshoot, Monroe was found dead in her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Barris was devastated and decided not to public the book that the photos were taken for: Marilyn: Her Life In Her Own Words.
It would just be 25 years after this disastrous occasion that Barris, alongside Hollywood glamor photographer collector Edward Weston, would distribute a restricted release of 99 prints of the eight photos from this shoot.
Let’s have a look at these eight touching and beautiful pictures of Marilyn Monroe along with some of her quotes
“I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
“It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far. “
“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. “
“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. “
“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. “
“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. “
“I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it. “
“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”
All Images are sourced from Lomography . If you want to know more about this auction, please visit the Bloomsbury Auctions website.
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