Quatrième de couverture
Before Marilyn, there was Norma Jeane
A story of love and friendship with a megastar in the making
One day in 1945, fashion photographer André de Dienes met an aspiring model named Norma Jeane Dougherty. It was a momentous moment, both for his personal life and his photographic portfolio. Over the next few years, he would be briefly engaged to Norma Jeane, take a number of adventurous road trips with her, and build up a stunning series of portraits which would help launch her modeling, and later movie, career.
Now available as part of TASCHEN's 45 series, this collection of de Dienes's photographs and private memoirs offers an intimate picture of Norma Jeane the woman, before she was Marilyn the icon. From their trip to see Norma Jeane's mother in a mental hospital to Marilyn's visit a few days before her death, de Dienes's emotion-laden archive, often annotated with handwritten notes, offers a deeply personal account of Monroe's transformation from a sensitive, ambitious girl into a deeply troubled global star.
Legendary arthouse TASCHEN turned 451
Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. The 45 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program - now more compact, even friendlier in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
Celebrate 45 years of books for optimists : inclusive, independent, and inspirational.
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