Ok so I saw this book in a library here in Panorama, and I debated for a LONG TIME wether I should pay for a book by the MODEL SEXUAL HARASSER that is Bert Stern, but eventually I decided to buy it. I mean what are the odds of such a book being found where I live? none, so it was like a sign.


This book is really really sad. I think it epitomizes what happened to Marilyn Monroe, a beautiful person that eventually just got destroyed by people who were there just to get something out of her, like bert stern himself.

God, he is SUCH A CREEP. He talks about the first time he saw Marilyn and how he "completely forgot about my life in New York with my wife and children" Rich. What a great man *rolls eyes*.


One thing that startled me from the book is just how horrible most of the pictures actually are. I mean Marilyn looks dreadful, she has like pounds of make up and has wrinkles and looks really gaunt and aged in some pictures.

Some people may say well that's the REAL her, but I know for a fact that a talentless photographer, like bert stern, can make the most beautiful person in the world look like a tramp from the gutter. Studio lighting has that effect if used in the wrong way.

I'm apalled really that a photographer like Bert Stern can have some respect, or could shoot for VOGUE for christ's sake, while having such poor technique and style. If there are any good pictures in those sessions, and they are, it is 100% exclusively because of Marilyn Monroe. Stern was just the guy shooting.

And they are really sad, I mean she looks really sad, but that was probably the effect of the champagne that Stern would always bring to his photoshoots to drunken the models so he could take advantage of them. He allegedly drug rapped Edie Sedgwick.

It's a stark contrast to a book by De Dienes I have of early photographs of Marilyn when she was Norma Jeane and her first years as a star. If you compare the two it's like good photographer vs. fucking moron but also it's a woman with hopes and dreams vs. a woman destroyed and ravished by fame.

Although that could be just the perception, I mean Marilyn really looked her best in 1962 and she was happy actually, but regardless of wether the camera lies or not, what you see in Stern's pictures is a person on the brink of utter destruction, a person in the brink of death.

quick: either move it to RnR or lock it.
i don't feel like seeing this shit staying on the first gossip page.

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