Fotograaf Eve Arnold Sheet limited photo Marilyn Monroe boek

Limited edition contact photo sheet van Marilyn Monroe op de set van de misfits. Foto;s van meesterfotograaf Eve Arnold. Beperkte uitgave.deze foto contact sheet is inmiddels niet meer verkrijgbaar in amerika. Het formaat is ideaal voor framing. De koper heeft een exclusief item. Afmetingen: 50,8 x 40,6 cm. Deze limited genummerde edition is gekocht bij magnum photos in amerika. Print zit in een cassette.


Inbegrepen is het eve arnold luxe hardcover boek. Eve arnold began photographing marilyn monroe after the actress saw his pictures of marlene dietrich in esquire. They met at a party and monroe asked: “if you could do that well with marlene, can you imagine what you can do with me?” So began their professional relationship, which, over the years, turned into friendship. Arnold photographed monroe six times over the decade he knew her; the longest of these sessions being a two-month stint during the filming of ‘the misfits’. Like the mournful tone of the film, arnold’s pictures carry an unintended emotional weight, the story behind the production – monroe’s tortured soul – as intriguing and stirring as the film itself.


This rare exclusive contact sheet allows you to follow the photographer’s process, frame by frame of marilyn monroe on the set of the misfits. Nevada, 1960. “…When arthur miller met marilyn he rewrote the story for the film. It then became the basis for this film called the misfits. It had clarke gable in the lead. It had marilyn as the female lead. It had montgomery clift, ely wallach.


It was meant to be exquisitely made. It was meant to be a small statement but very serious in its message. And it was meant to bring marilyn forward as a very serious actress. And this was miller’s valentine gift to marilyn. The marriage was already over but what he had wanted to do with it was to give her a unique gift. She adored all of it. She loved the attention and she loved these very handsome men.


What she didn’t like was the fact that they were all such polished actors. When they kept changing lines they would just reel them off and they would be word-perfect. And she would have difficulty because a) she didn’t have the training, and b) because she was troubled and it was difficult to remember the lines when she was going through a trying time. She was ill at the time and she was disturbed. She had twice taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. I’m sure by accident because her big enemy was that she couldn’t sleep. And so, nights she would take two pills and then two more pills and then forgetting, she’d wake up and be muzzy, and in the morning she could hardly find her way around.” Eve arnold;s assistant at the time: i recently got the chance to look through eve’s contact sheets and transparencies from the misfits again. They are currently housed at yale university’s beinecke library and i was there exploring a digitization project which seeks to make more of eve’s previously unseen images available.

Within just a few minutes i found some wonderful images on contact sheets that i had never seen, marked in grease pencil with an “e”, by eve herself.

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