In 1982, I bought a book called " The last Sitting ", by Bert Stern, a world known and the most dynamic photographer of beautiful women. He had a dream, to create a great portrait of Marilyn Monroe, to catch on film her unique quality in one immortal photograph.
Through a Vogue assignment, Stern arranged a meeting with Marilyn, who agreed to sit for him. It was to be the last she ever gave. Six weeks later Marilyn Monroe was dead. But the innocence and the fire that was Marilyn are captured forever in the most ravishing photographs ever taken of the legendary star. These include some of the most famous of her, as well as never-before-published photos from Stern's private collection.
Marilyn posed nude for Stern, the only time she had done so since the famous / infamous calendar shots taken when she was eighteen. The book also tells Stern's own account of what happened then - how the sitting ignited into an extraordinary romance, in which a man and woman made love through the camera's lens. " She was the light, the moon and the gooddess - the mystery and the danger " he wrote.
The incandescent photographs record it all. With Marilyn clothed and unclothed, joyful, playful, wistful, deliciously wanton - a true love goddess.
Stern has been called " the most exciting and controversial photographer of the last quarter of the 20th century " This collector's book, published on the 20th anniversary of Marilyn's death, is Stern's unforgettable tribute to a legend of her time and beyond.
Unfortunately, this book is of a rather large size for me to be able to scan in the photos, all of which are much larger than my scanner, some also occupying double page with the bend / fold in the middle, quite beyond my limited photographic and technical skill to reproduce for this group. I will ask some questions if and when I could find someone with the know-how, to see whether I could overcome this tech problem. It might never happen as I live in a place where there are definitely more fishermen than tech experts. I am also not quite sure about the copy right issue.
Perhaps, one of these days, by luck ......
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