AVANT GARDE: The Marilyn Monroe Trip

First edition of AVANT GARDE: The Marilyn Monroe Trip by Bert Stern. Medium format softcover in near fine condition. Slight creasing to binding and minor toning to pages. Please see photos for reference.

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Bert Stern took what were to be the final photographs of Marilyn Monroe before her death. Know as “The Last Sitting”, the portraits were shot at the Bel Air Hotel in Hollywood over three days. On reflection Stern was never entirely satisfied with them, “because of photography’s technical limitations, they never quite communicated the dazzling image of Marilyn that existed in my mind’s eye at the time I photographed her.” As a result, over the next five years Stern began experimenting with silk screening techniques in order to capture and preserve the image of Marilyn he saw at the time he photographed her.