WILLIAM CARROLL
A DAY AT THE BEACH WITH NORMA JEANE
:LOOLDP&DUUROOWRRNVRPHRIWKHoUVWSKRWRJUDSKVRID nineteen-year-old Norma Jeane when he was searching for a model to appear on a counter card for his store. Recalling the shoot, he said, “I was looking for a girl next door. I wanted a good-looking plain Jane, the kind of kid you’d like to live next to.” Carroll paid Norma Jeane $20 for the day. &DUUROOXVHGDVLPSOHWHFKQLTXHQRoOWHUVpDVKoOO RUUHpHFWRUV+HFRQFHQWUDWHGRQ1RUPD-HDQHV personality. Recollecting the shoot, Carroll said, “Norma Jeane was a refreshing natural. When she moved into position, it was so rapidly as if she was reading my mind.” After the shoot, Carroll never saw Norma Jeane again. More than 40 years were to pass before he realised who the young model had become when he read an article in Time magazine about a London auction of informal Marilyn Monroe photographs taken by another photographer, “…she was wearing some of the same clothing used during our shoot, only then did I become aware of the Monroe association.”
Silver Halide print from an Ansco colour transparency | 11” x 14” | Edition of 25 Norma Jeane #11 , Castle Rock, North of Santa Monica, California, 1945
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