Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962
Tom Kelley’s Studio, a new book from Reel Art Press (the people behind The Rat Pack) features his most famous session – with a young, unknown Marilyn – on its cover. It is a general review of his work, will be published on November 1st.
Also coming soon from Reel Art Press is Dennis Stock: American Cool, including these photos taken during filming of The Misfits. (I’m not sure yet whether his other work with Marilyn is also featured.)
Magnum photographer Dennis Stock – who shot Marilyn at work on Bus Stop and The Misfits – is the subject of a new documentary, Beyond Iconic, directed by Hanna Sawka and screening at the Rosendale Theatre Collective in the Hudson Valley, New York State, tomorrow (April 21st) at 7.15pm.
A retrospective exhibition for photographer Dennis Stock, who died in 2010, is now at New York’s Milk Gallery until April 17th. This image shows Marilyn, in costume for There’s No Business Like Show Business, watching Marlon Brando filming Desiree in 1954.
Stock also shot the iconic ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ photo of James Dean. His pictures of Marilyn are featured in the 2012 book, Marilyn By Magnum.
Rare photos taken by Philippe Halsman in Marilyn’s apartment in 1952, published in Marilyn By Magnum, are featured in today’s Mirror newspaper.
The book also features rarities from Elliott Erwitt and Bob Henriques, among others. It is lovely, and affordable, but rather too short (considering Magnum’s vast archive on MM.)
Scans by Chris at Club Passion Marilyn and Eric at Everlasting Star
This wonderful photo of Marilyn, taken by Dennis Stock, on board a plane in 1959 – she was returning to New York after meeting the Soviet president, Nikita Krushchev, in LA – was published in The Sun yesterday. It comes from Magnum’s Paris vaults, which have just been re-opened. One reader comments that it ‘clearly looks like one of a series. She looks as if she’s about to reveal all.’ (While other shots were taken on and off the plane, MM kept her coat firmly buttoned!)
While this shot is not brand new to me, I was pleased to see a more unusual picture of Marilyn featured in a newspaper. After a quick search for ‘dennis stock marilyn monroe’ on the Magnum Photos website, I found some other interesting additions (though sadly watermarked.)
