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Background information
"Bert STERN, the famous fashion and advertising photographer of the 1960s, was the last photographer to whom Marilyn Monroe - six weeks before her death - granted a photo session in Bungalow 264 of the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles. In a three-day session arranged for US Vogue, almost two thousand five hundred and seventy-one fashion, portrait and nude shots were taken, only a few of which were published at the time. The actress posed nude of her own free will, covering her body with light clothing for some of the photos. She scratched or censored pictures she didn't like by sliding nail polish over the slides.
Content
The out-of-print photo book 'Marilyn Monroe' contains a selection of the most beautiful photographs taken during Marilyn's Last Sitting, pictures of indescribable sensual and human charisma." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Schimer/Mosel Verlag, 1992)