- Title: USA: Late nude photos of Marilyn Monroe on display in a New York gallery
- Date: 26th May 2007
- Summary: VARIOUS OF LAYOUT OF THE NEGATIVES FROM THE MONROE PHOTO SHOOT LIMITED EDITION PRINT OF MONROE PHOTOGRAPH
- Embargoed: 10th June 2007 13:00
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- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
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- Story Text: The last professional photos taken of actress Marilyn Monroe are on public display for the first time at New York City's Pop International Galleries. The pictures, taken on the set of the 1962 film "Something's Got to Give," reveal a nude Monroe just two months before her death.
The portfolio of photographs have been published since in the 1960s, but the gallery prints mark their first public exhibition, as well as their first limited edition sale. Taken in both colour and black and white, the photographs show Monroe as a true sex symbol, posing for the camera while in and around a swimming pool.
Photographer Lawrence Schiller was hired by Paris Match magazine to follow Monroe for 10 days. Schiller said he still remembers seeing Monroe naked in the swimming pool.
"Marilyn came out of her dressing room in this wonderful blue bathrobe, terrycloth, one like you would have lying around your own house, jumped into the swimming pool, dog-paddled around, and then came up to the edge of the pool and didn't have a bra on. Well immediately, myself and everybody on the set knew this was the first time in like 10 or 12 years that Marilyn might be photographed nude," he said.
The prints of Monroe range in price from 3,000 to 12,000 U.S. dollars.
Schiller said that Monroe was a joy to work with, but was also a stern guardian of her image. "Marilyn was very, very fussy on who photographed her. She in fact had approval of every one of the pictures. She would sit there with a grease pencil and cross them out or pinking sheers and cut them. She knew who she wanted to photograph her and when she wanted to be photographed," he said.
Monroe was eventually fired from the set of "Something's Got to Give," and died on August 5, 1962 of a drug overdose. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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