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Original vintage glossy 8 x 10 close-up photo of Marilyn Monroe sans makeup laughing during a photo shoot on Malibu Beach, originally taken in 1946 by photographer Andre de Dienes and printed from the original negative during the 1950s. Reverse bears the credit stamp of Andre de Dienes, who adds a handwritten notation, “Marilyn Monroe (Laughing in the wind), ‘Joy.’” In very fine condition. Encapsulated by PSA as an authentic 'Type II' photograph, circa 1950s.
De Dienes on the Malibu shoot: ‘She was twenty and had never experienced the intoxication of success, yet already there was a shadow over her radiance, in her laughter. I asked her to react instinctively, without giving herself time to think, to the words happiness, surprise, reflection, doubt, peace of mind, sadness, self-torment…and death. When I said ‘death,’ she took hold of the folded dark-cloth and covered her head with it. Death to her was blackness, nothingness. I tried to coax another reaction from her. Death might be a beginning, the hope of an everlasting light. She shook her head: ‘That’s what death is for me.’ She turned towards me, her face set and despairing, eyes dulled, her mouth suddenly bereft of colour. To her, death was the end of everything.’
The Marc and Mary Perkins Collection.
