MUUS Collection

Marilyn Monroe by André de Dienes in 1953, as featured by the today.

As .snow writes: “In 1953, while suffering from insomnia, Monroe called Dienes in the middle of the night and proposed an impromptu photo shoot in Beverly Hills. She suggested that they shoot on a dark street, with only the headlamps of Dienes’ car to light the scene (wanting, perhaps, to invoke a fragile deer in the headlights). The resulting pictures… are like no other photographs of her in existence: tenebrous, haunting, with more than a passing resemblance to Cindy Sherman’s later photographic series Untitled Film Stills (1977-80). Like Sherman in those images, here she is an artist whose skill is being used to uncanny effect.“