On July 4th 1962, Richard Meryman begins an interview with Marilyn. It will be the last! He wanted some photos with the article but Marilyn wasn't very happy to do an other sitting. But finally, she was agree to do it in her house. The photographer was Allan Grant. Those photos are the really last photos of Marilyn Monroe! Here's some of the contact sheets from the photo session:

Marilyn Monroe

Before there was Marilyn Monroe there was a girl named Norma Jeane Dougherty who met André de Dienes in 1945. Together they travelled as lovers taking photographs that would help catapult the cherub-faced redhead into superstardom. These black and white photographs of Marilyn on Malibu beach covered in a blanket wearing no make-up are accompanied with the below text: “She was twenty and had never experienced the intoxication of success, yet already there was a shadow over her radiance, in her laughter. One day when we were relaxing on the beach between photo sessions, I decided to capture some new expressions I had glimpsed on Marilyn’s face. Getting her in close-up, I asked her to react instinctively, without giving herself time to think, to the words happiness, surprise, reflection, doubt, peace of mind, sadness, self-torment… and death. When I said ‘death’ she took hold of the folded dark-cloth and covered her head with it. Death to her was blackness, nothingness. I tried to coax another reaction from her. Death might be a beginning, the hope of an everlasting light. She shook her head: ‘That’s what death is for me.’ She turned towards me, her face set and despairing, eyes dulled, her mouth suddenly bereft of colour. To her, death was the end of everything.” – André de Dienes

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Marilyn Monroe nue: bien avant Photoshop, cette célèbre photo a aussi été retouchée Publié le 30/07/2015en ligne sur huffingtonpost.fr PHOTOS - Marilyn Monroe est l'icône glamour par excellence. Son nom est toujours associé à ses courbes généreuses...