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1958. The Enchantress Series

Sep 19, 2012 06:20

In 1958, Life Magazine invited Marilyn Monroe and photographer Richard Avedon to recreate images of five celebrated actresses of different eras. Entitled “Fabled Enchantresses,” the piece was part of the magazine’s December 22 “Christmas” issue and included an article by Marilyn’s playwright husband, Arthur Miller, entitled “My Wife, Marilyn.”

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Comments 12

lady_astrocat September 19 2012, 20:53:01 UTC

These are amazing!

endlessdeep September 19 2012, 21:44:52 UTC

Wow. These are fabulous. Thanks for sharing. :)

bitchie_poo September 20 2012, 01:22:24 UTC

i was never a marilyn monroe fan. she's beautiful, but the pictures of her are all the same and so plastic. these have changed that.

misskelleen September 20 2012, 04:55:53 UTC

I'm glad to read this comment.

There are so many "plastic" images out there of her, but if you spent a bit of time on Google doing an image search, or even went to maybe the massive photo archives at ThisIsMarilyn.com, I bet you'd see a whole new side of her emerge... There are some really heartbreaking, sad photos of her, as well as some innocent, playful, make-up free photos too.

:)

misskelleen September 20 2012, 04:57:18 UTC

I've always wondered this myself about the last photo! Having Sally Rand as a great-auntie, I like to think Marilyn was paying homage to my family member!!!

:D

Great photos, really nice quality.

If you're a Marilyn fan, I'd love to invite you to join my community, 1962. It's the largest MM fan comm on LJ!

xo