DRAGON: February 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Marilyn Monroe / The Lost Marilyn Nudes

The Lost Marilyn Nudes

from Her Last
On-Set Photo Shoot

It was the assignment of an ambitious young photographer’s dreams: capturing Hollywood’s sexiest star forLook magazine in 1960. Lawrence Schiller’s chemistry with Marilyn Monroe seemed promising, and their professional relationship deepened when he photographed her on the set of her final, never-finished movie, Something’s Got to Give. The breathtaking nude shots from that shoot, some unpublished till now.

Monroe, in a never-before-published picture, shot during the pool scene in Something’s Got to Give, May 1962

A previously unseen selection of nudes, taken three months before the actress’s death

Monroe on the 1962 set

Yves Montand peers into co-star Monroe’s dressing room while shooting Let’s Make Love, 1960

Montand, Monroe, and Paula Strasberg

Monroe, with Strasberg, on the Something’s Got to Give set, 1962

Monroe outside Dean Martin’s trailer

On her 36th birthday, with Wally Cox and Martin, in his dressing room

A touch-up from makeup man Whitey Snyder

Marilyn Monroe on the set of Something’s Got to Give, May 1962

Taking it off for director George Cukor

Taking it off for photographer Lawrence Schiller’s camera, 1962

http://www.vintag.es/2012/12/the-lost-marilyn-nudes-from-her-last-on.html

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Marilyn Monroe / Photos by Eve Arnold

Marilyn Monroe

by Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold, Hon. FRPS, OBE (née Cohen; April 21, 1912 – January 4, 2012) was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957. Arnold died in London on January 4, 2012, aged 99.

Arnold's images of Marilyn Monroe on the set of the actress's last film, The Misfits (1961) were iconic, but she had taken many photos of Monroe from 1951 onwards. Her previously unseen photos of Monroe were shown at an Halcyon Gallery exhibition in London during May 2005. She also photographed Queen Elizabeth II, Malcolm X, and Joan Crawford, and traveled around the world, photographing in China, Russia, South Africa and Afghanistan.