Norman Mailer. Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe

A biography and a pictorial retrospective of Marilyn Monroe are combined in this book to honor the woman who was the most famous in the world at the time of her death in 1962. The photographs from the Last Sitting, which are regarded as the most private of Monroe, are combined with Norman Mailer's original text to create a tribute to the woman who was a symbol of glamour and eroticism for an entire generation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 276 pages
Publication date: 24 May 2022
Publisher: Taschen GmbH

“This book is truly two books in one. It serves as both a biography and a visual retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair, arguably, was with the camera,” wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography, Marilyn. To honor the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the world's most famous, a symbol of glamour and eroticism for an entire generation, TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text with Bert Stern's photographs from the legendary Last Sitting, widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever taken. However, despite her public adoration and admiration, Monroe's private life was that of a lost little girl, desperately seeking love and security.

Mailer's Marilyn is a captivating, tragic, and complex portrayal of the iconic actress. As he reflects on her life, from her bleak childhood to the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death, Monroe emerges as a symbol of the bizarre decade during which she reigned as Hollywood's greatest female star. This book, conceived by Lawrence Schiller, Mailer's collaborator on five works, combines Mailer's masterful text with Stern's penetrating images of the 36-year-old Monroe. Photographed for Vogue magazine over three days at the Bel-Air Hotel, Monroe had never allowed such unfettered access or looked so breathtakingly beautiful. Six weeks later, mysteriously, she was dead.

In this bold synthesis of literary classic and legendary portrait-sitting, Mailer and Stern lift the veils of confusion surrounding Monroe—the woman, the star, the sex symbol—and offer profound insight into an iconic figure whose true personality remains an enigma even today.

Weight: 2668g
Dimension: 291 x 357 x 41 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783836592611