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Marilyn
Marilyn
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Marilyn

Artist (American, born 1929)
Date1962
Mediumgelatin silver print
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2014.1215
Label TextStern learned about photography as an art director for the fashion magazine "Mayfair" in 1949. He first published his own photographs while serving in the military during the Korean War. Back in New York in 1953, he became a freelance photographer and sometime cinematographer, best known for his documentary film on the Newport Jazz festival, "Jazz on a Summer’s Day." Stern was working for "Vogue" in 1962, when he was assigned an extended shoot with Marilyn Monroe. Just six weeks before her death he shot 2,500 frames over three days.
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