I came across these pictures of Marilyn Monroe. They are from a photoshoot in 1957.
Naturally I thought they were very pretty, but as I kept scrolling through the photoset I saw these:
These are pictures of Norma Jean, the person behind the Marilyn Monroe.
“‘For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe … Then there was the inevitable drop … she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone.” And [Avedon] clicked his shutter once more. “I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.” The resultant final frame is among the most famous portraits ever made—one that is, as the photographer Vik Muniz neatly put it, “a picture of Norma Jean, not Marilyn.”
I found these very sad. I can’t imagine what it would be like to try to be perfect for the cameras at every moment.
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