Photograph by Bert Stern :
Marilyn Monroe - Crucifix II (from The Last Sitting)
His best known work is arguably The Last Sitting, a collection of 2,500 photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe over a three day period, six weeks before her death, taken for Vogue. Stern published Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting
in 1992. In it, he recounted being enchanted by her until a
near-intimate encounter after the second day of shooting; he then
realized that she was deeply troubled.
“She hated the scar on her midriff from a recent gall-bladder operation,
I told her it was beautiful. She was at a time in her life when she
needed to re-invent herself, I think that’s why she accepted to pose for
me, she drank gallons of Dom Pérignon, got drunk and fell asleep.”
(Bert Stern)
Monroe and Bert
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