This new photo book, set to be published in October 2011, looks very tempting…
” ‘Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis’ features images by world-class photographers including Richard Avedon, Milton Greene, Sam Shaw, Cecil Beaton, Philippe Halsman, Andre de Dienes, George Barris, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Philippe Halsman, Willy Rizzo, Richard C. Miller, Tom Kelley, and others.
“More than 60% of the photographs in the book have never before been published.
“Australian-born curator and preservationist David Wills has accrued one of the world’s largest independent archives of original Marilyn Monroe photographs. Now, in ‘Marilyn Metamorphosis’, he has gathered the work of every major Marilyn photographer-and dozens of unknowns-to create the most dazzling portfolio of images from every period in Marilyn Monroe’s life, from her earliest sittings in 1942 till just weeks before her death two decades later. With more than three hundred full-bleed photos-including countless dazzling, unseen color photos from the very start of her career- ‘Marilyn Metamorphosis’ chronicles her meteoric rise from a humble catalog model to one of the most recognized faces in history. No other book even comes close.
“Norma Jean Baker’s transformation into one of the most emulated and iconic Hollywood starlets is an epic American story—one that careens from a troubled childhood through bright spotlights and dark depression. ‘Marilyn Metamorphosis’ offers a straightforward, cleanly designed photograph journey through Monroe’s meteoric rise and tragic undoing. From ‘The Rehearsal’ years of a brunette Norma Jean posing in factories and on beaches, to the final chapter, ‘Icarus,’ which contains images taken only weeks before her death, ‘Marilyn Metamorphosis’ presents a visual historical record like never before seen.
‘Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis’ by David Wills, Stephen Schmidt
Publisher: Harper-Collins/It Books
- ISBN-10: 006203619X
- ISBN-13: 978-0062036193
320 pages; 9 x 11 1/2
b&w and color photos throughoutPre-order now at Amazon UK or Amazon.com
