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4 Polka Dot Umbrella, Tobay Beach, 1949 Giclée edition of 295 Image 20” x 16” Framed £699
Tobay Beach, 1949 Giclée edition of 295
Image 16” x 20” Framed £699
flight but Kashio Aoki, the official steward for the couple, asked them if he could take some photographs. They were amongst the very few taken on the honeymoon, and Aoki kept them for 46 years before contacting Edward Weston to help him publish them. These exceptional photographs reach deep behind the carefully choreographed public persona that was Marilyn. From pensive to playful and from sultry to serene, they pay homage to a complex, multifaceted, fascinating woman whose potent appeal continues to seduce to this day. HYPNOTIC PRESENCE 'Polka Dot Umbrella' (right) and 'Driftwood' (above) were taken the following year by
Andre De Dienes on Tobay Beach, New York. A passionate and emotional photographer, he was born in Transylvania and emigrated to the US in 1938. He initially worked with Marilyn in 1945 – then a brunette Norma Jeanne - when he hired her for one of her earliest modelling jobs and he continued to work with her for the next eight years. The beach was as deserted as it looks in the photos. Although crowded when they first arrived, storm clouds sent people scurrying home then the clouds dispersed and they started shooting. Marilyn was still new to the film industry in 1949 but Dienes remembers her having the radiant presence of an established star. And his enthusiasm was clearly infectious: “I asked her to flirt
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