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Book Marilyn Monroe and the Camera

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane Russell
  • Publisher : Te Neues Publishing Company
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9783823854678
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Marilyn Monroe and the Camera written by Jane Russell and published by Te Neues Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many different, often contradictory, things have been written about Marilyn Monroe, but one truth remains constant -- the camera loved her. Whether posing kittenishly in a pinup shot or dramatically for a classic portrait, this shy, vulnerable, enormously insecure woman was transformed by the lens. Marilyn posed for nearly every major photographer of her day, and this pictoral chronicle of her affair with the camera, featuring shots from Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisentaedt, Elliott Erwitt, Philippe Halsman, Weegee, and thirty other artists, brings together the most beautiful and unusual images available. From her early days as a "fashion model" for ads and pinup calendars, through the film stills that follow her career as a minor actress and then major starlit, to the now-famous portraits by Avedon, and Cecil Beaton, as well as the paparazzi shots from the hordes of photographers who trailed her every move -- Marilyn emerges in all her many moods: girlish and gay, sexy and serious, glamorous and girl-next-door. And, in a fascinating and revealing interview with French writer George Belmont, Marilyn sets the record straight about much of her early life, and about her ambitions, fears, and dreams. Jane Russell, Marilyn's friend and costar in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, enhances this portrait with an affectionate foreword that describes what it was like to work with the young actress. Although we will never know the "real" Marilyn, this sumptuous volume goes a long way toward preserving the memory of an utterly unforgettable woman.

Book Turkmen Jewelry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1588394158
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Turkmen Jewelry written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue explores extraordinary silver jewellery created by Turkmen tribal craftsmen and urban silversmiths throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. It presents nearly 200 pieces in glorious detail, ranging from crowns and headdresses to armbands and rings, and featuring accents of carnelian, turquoise, and other stones.

Book The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog  and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe

Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe written by Andrew O'Hagan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given as a Christmas present to Marilyn Monroe, Maf the dog provides keen insight into the world of the Hollywood starlet during the last two years of her life.

Book The Blonde

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Godbersen
  • Publisher : Weinstein Books
  • Release : 2014-05-13
  • ISBN : 1602862222
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book The Blonde written by Anna Godbersen and published by Weinstein Books. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After young Norma Jean is turned into a famous movie star by a Soviet agent, she is asked to repay her debt by providing top secret information about the president, in this re-imagination of the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy.

Book The Essential Marilyn Monroe

Download or read book The Essential Marilyn Monroe written by Joshua Greene and published by Antique Collector's Club. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Milton H. Greene (1922-1985), famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Marilyn Monroe on a photo shoot for Look magazine in 1953. The pair developed an instant rapport, quickly becoming close friends and ultimately business partners.Greene passed in 1985, thinking his life's work was succumbing to the ravages of time. His eldest son, Joshua, began a journey to meticulously restore his father's legacy. After spending nearly two decades restoring his father's archive, Joshua Greene and his company are widely regarded as one of the leaders in photographic restoration and have been at the forefront of the digital imaging and large-format printing revolution. Now Joshua Greene, in conjunction with Iconic Images, presents 'The Essential Marilyn Monroe, Milton H. Greene: 50 Sessions'. With 280 photographs, including many never-before published and unseen images, newly scanned and restored classics, as well as images that have appeared only once in publication, Greene's Marilyn Monroe archive can finally be viewed as it was originally intended when these pictures were first produced more than 60 years ago. These classic sessions - 50 in all - cover Monroe at the height of her astonishing beauty and meteoric fame. From film-sets to the bedroom, at home and at play, Joshua has curated a lasting tribute to the work of a great photographer and his greatest muse"--Publisher's description.

Book My Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marilyn Monroe
  • Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Release : 2006-11-25
  • ISBN : 1589795016
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book My Story written by Marilyn Monroe and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio. In this intimate account of a very public life, she tells of her first (non-consensual) sexual experience, her romance with the Yankee Clipper, and her prescient vision of herself as "the kind of girl they found dead in the hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand." The Marilyn in these pages is a revelation: a gifted, intelligent, vulnerable woman who was far more complex than the unwitting sex siren she portrayed on screen. Lavishly illustrated with photos of Marilyn, this special book celebrates the life and career of an American icon—-from the unique perspective of the icon herself.

Book The Marilyn Encyclopedia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Victor
  • Publisher : Duckworth Publishing
  • Release : 2012-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780715643686
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Marilyn Encyclopedia written by Adam Victor and published by Duckworth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Victor sifts through the competing versions of events throughout all of Marilyn Monroe's life and traces a young woman's inexorable path to iconhood, creating a compelling anatomy of fame in the last century. The book is fully illustrated and includes a bibliography and index.

Book Marilyn and Me

Download or read book Marilyn and Me written by Lawrence Schiller and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just months before her death, Marilyn Monroe gave a young photographer his big break, and this is his story "You're already famous, now you're going to make me famous," photographer Lawrence Schiller said to Marilyn Monroe as they discussed the photos he was about to shoot of her. "Don't be so cocky," Marilyn replied, "photographers can be easily replaced." The year was 1962, and Schiller, 25, was on assignment for Paris Match magazine. He already knew Marilyn -- they had met on the set of Let's Make Love -- but nothing could have prepared him for the day she appeared nude during a swimming pool scene for the motion picture Something's Got to Give. Marilyn & Me is an intimate story of a legend before her fall and a young photographer on his way to the top. Schiller's original text and extraordinary photographs--over two thirds of which have never or rarely been published--take us back to that time, and to the surprising connection that allowed Marilyn to bond with a kid from Brooklyn, a kid with a lot of ambition but very little experience. Now, 50 years later, TASCHEN is publishing Lawrence Schiller's story as a signed, numbered monograph limited to 1,962 copies, for the year of Monroe's untimely death. Schiller's is a story that has never been told before, and he tells it with tact, humor, and compassion. The result is a real and unexpected portrait that captures the star in the midst of her final struggle. Collector's Edition of 1,712 numbered copies (books numbered No. 251-1,962) signed by the photographer. Also available in two Art Editions of 125 copies, each with an original photograph The book and clamshell box are covered in a custom woven duchesse silk from one of the world's most distinguished silk mills, Taroni, of Como, Italy Printed on archival paper Four foldouts, with one gatefold measuring a full 110 cm (44 in.) across Translation booklet of the text available in German, French and Spanish with purchase upon request

Book The New DOT

Download or read book The New DOT written by Advisory Panel for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Their Voices Heard

Download or read book Making Their Voices Heard written by Vivian Kirkfield and published by little bee books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. On the outside, you couldn't find two girls who looked more different. But on the inside, they were alike--full of hopes and dreams and plans of what might be. Ella Fitzgerald's velvety tones and shube-doobie-doos captivated audiences. Jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington couldn't wait to share the stage with her, but still, Ella could not book a performance at one of the biggest clubs in town--one she knew would give her career its biggest break yet. Marilyn Monroe dazzled on the silver screen with her baby blue eyes and breathy boo-boo-be-doos. But when she asked for better scripts, a choice in who she worked with, and a higher salary, studio bosses refused. Two women whose voices weren't being heard. Two women chasing after their dreams and each helping the other to achieve them. This is the inspiring, true story of two incredibly talented women who came together to help each other shine like the stars that they are.

Book Everything She Touched

Download or read book Everything She Touched written by Marilyn Chase and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa. This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist. Born in California in 1926, Ruth Asawa grew from a farmer's daughter to a celebrated sculptor. She survived adolescence in the World War II Japanese-American internment camps and attended the groundbreaking art school at Black Mountain College. Asawa then went on to develop her signature hanging-wire sculptures, create iconic urban installations, revolutionize arts education in her adopted hometown of San Francisco, fight through lupus, and defy convention to nurture a multiracial family. • A richly visual volume with over 60 reproductions of Asawa's art and archival photos of her life (including portraits shot by her friend, the celebrated photographer Imogen Cunningham) • Documents Asawa's transformative touch—most notably by turning wire – the material of the internment camp fences – into sculptures • Author Marilyn Chase mined Asawa's letters, diaries, sketches, and photos and conducted interviews with those who knew her to tell this inspiring story. Ruth Asawa forged an unconventional path in everything she did—whether raising a multiracial family of six children, founding a high school dedicated to the arts, or pursuing her own practice independent of the New York art market. Her beloved fountains are now San Francisco icons, and her signature hanging-wire sculptures grace the MoMA, de Young, Getty, Whitney, and many more museums and galleries across America. • Ruth Asawa's remarkable life story offers inspiration to artists, art lovers, feminists, mothers, teachers, Asian Americans, history buffs, and anyone who loves a good underdog story. • A perfect gift for those interested in Asian American culture and history • Great for those who enjoyed Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel, Ruth Asawa: Life's Work by Tamara Schenkenberg, and Notes and Methods by Hilma af Klint

Book Virginia Woolf Icon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brenda R. Silver
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780226757469
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Virginia Woolf Icon written by Brenda R. Silver and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of Virginia Woolfs in both high and popular culture, she argues, has transformed the writer into a "star" whose image and authority are persistently claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, gender, the canon, class, feminism, and fashion."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Marilyn by Magnum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerry Badger
  • Publisher : Prestel Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9783791346649
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Marilyn by Magnum written by Gerry Badger and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken by members of the collective, Magnum Photos.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marilyn s Mindset

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart P. Coates
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2010-04
  • ISBN : 1450224792
  • Pages : 683 pages

Download or read book Marilyn s Mindset written by Stuart P. Coates and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1982 and Jennie Samantha Williamson, Marilyn Monroe's nineteen-year-old future daughter, has inherited her mother's addiction to Nembutals. When she discovers the Time Bubble's Golden Key in a table beside her mother's bed, she makes plans to travel back in time to 1971 in an attempt to stop a chain of events that culminated in an undersea disaster. But first, Jennie must travel to September 15, 1954 in New York City, where Marilyn Monroe is filming The Seven Year Itch. After she persuades her mother that she is her future daughter and that time travel is possible, she still must convince Marilyn to travel ahead in time seventeen years to dive once again into Santa Monica Bay, hopefully changing fate in the process. Meanwhile as Marilyn and her future husband travel to 2068 to explore an underground city and search for a time machine's sketches, Jennie knows the secret to stopping the 1971 underwater disaster lies in the palm of her future mother's hand but only if she can safely transport Marilyn back to 1971 from 2068 before the Sentinels of The System hunt down and kill all three for their defiance.

Book Bill Moss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marilyn Moss
  • Publisher : Chawezi
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780989239301
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bill Moss written by Marilyn Moss and published by Chawezi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions of Bill Moss to mid-twentieth-century American culture were manifold. First changing the world of camping with the invention of the Pop tent, he went on to shake the world of fabric architecture with the many forms that we now take for granted. Lavishly illustrated with historic photographs, the book chronicles Moss' creative life from his early years until his death in 1994. It has a broad appeal as it encompasses many aspects of our cultural history--from architecture & design to biography to the complete transformation of the camping experience. Woven into this tale is the story of an award-winning Maine company, Moss Inc. Engaged in the creative economy long before most people used the term, it was also known as being one of most socially responsible businesses in the country, a reputation that held fast up until its sale by CEO Marilyn Moss in 2001.