MARILYN

Author: Jean-Jacques Naudet
Hardcover; $18.95 (Canada $29.95) UK: 12.95
6 1/4 x 8 1/4 /15.5 x 21.5cm; 80 pages; 40 color & b/w photos

USA- Commemorating Marilyn Monroe's Birthday, Assouline Publishing will release this fantastic photo expose into one of the the word's most recognized faces. Marilyn.... instantly evokes glamour, charm, voluptuous beauty, but also an alluring childlike vulnerability. It's precisely this multifaceted and complex appeal that created her incredible popularity and ensures her continuing fame. Each of the various photographers she worked with cultivated a different side of Marilyn's beauty and personality. Here are the first-hand accounts as well as the photographs of some of Marilyn's most trusted photographers telling what it was like to photograph the legend herself. Contributors include Henri Cartier-Bresson; Ande de Dienes; Cecil Beaton; Richard Avedon and Milton Greene. Writer Jean-Jacques Naudet is a journalist for Hachette-Filipacchi and has served as editor in chief of Photo magazine from 1976 to 1988. For more information please contact Adrian Rose at workstaff@workhousepr.com or visit http://www.workhousepr.com/assouline/marilyn