Marilyn (Taschen Limited Deluxe Edition)

A$150 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

DE DIENES, André (ed. Steve Crist; with Shirley T. Ellis de Dienes). Marilyn. Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2002. 3 vols. Elephant Folio. Three-volume set housed in a large yellow facsimile Kodak photographic paper box, with book title, photographer, and publisher written in black ink over crossed-out Kodak labels — precisely as de Dienes's own boxes were inscribed. Contents: (1) oversized hardcover, 240 pp., photographs throughout in colour and black and white, printed on 150g matte stock, with excerpts from de Dienes's memoirs; (2) softcover facsimile of de Dienes's complete Marilyn memoirs and Marilyn composite book, 608 pp., comprising the complete set of nearly 1,000 Marilyn photographs in contact-sized prints; (3) facsimile brochure comprising all 24 of Marilyn's magazine covers shot by de Dienes and a facsimile of the Sunbathing Review (Fall 1958). First edition. Limited to 20,000 numbered copies. Set unopened. The story of Monroe's coming-of-age is extraordinary: from a succession of foster families, an early marriage to a factory worker, a discovery by a photographer for a munitions company catalogue, to a position at the absolute centre of twentieth-century popular culture. This is the book about the photographer who found her before she was famous and photographed her for the rest of her life. André de Dienes (1913–1985) was born in Transylvania and had established himself in New York as a successful magazine photographer by the time he came to Los Angeles in the

• Binding: Hardcover

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