Death of Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe's favorite photographer
His name may not tell you anything but his photos certainly. Bert Stern, famous American fashion photographer, died Tuesday, June 25, 2013 in Manhattan. With his passing the world of art and fashion photography is losing a big name. Born in Brooklyn in 1929, he will begin fashion early, at the age of 17. After his military service, he will become a cult photographer who will immortalize the biggest fashion icons of the last six decades. Marilyn Monroe, Audrey HepburnCatherine Deneuve, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Kate Moss, Drew Barrymore ... All the biggest stars of the cinema and fashion will pass under his objective for a result always beautiful, original, with very particular grain.
Officiant for Vogue, Time Magazine, or during advertising campaigns, Bert Stern has acquired a status of portraitist genius over the years. His greatest work (and his best known) is undoubtedly this series of more than two thousand photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken in June 1962, six weeks before the death of the star. She was more beautiful than ever. Series ordered by Vogueshe was considered too provocative at the time by the American magazine. Years later, Bert Stern had published the entire collection in 1992 in the book Marilyn Monroe : The Last Sitting ». It is however this order which will reveal the talent of the photographer to the whole world.
Bert Stern was also behind the goal of unforgettable photos ofAudrey Hepburn for the advertising campaign of Givenchy's L'Interdit perfume, of which she was the muse. Many of his photographs are now on display at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York.
Officiant for Vogue, Time Magazine, or during advertising campaigns, Bert Stern has acquired a status of portraitist genius over the years. His greatest work (and his best known) is undoubtedly this series of more than two thousand photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken in June 1962, six weeks before the death of the star. She was more beautiful than ever. Series ordered by Vogueshe was considered too provocative at the time by the American magazine. Years later, Bert Stern had published the entire collection in 1992 in the book Marilyn Monroe : The Last Sitting ». It is however this order which will reveal the talent of the photographer to the whole world.
Bert Stern was also behind the goal of unforgettable photos ofAudrey Hepburn for the advertising campaign of Givenchy's L'Interdit perfume, of which she was the muse. Many of his photographs are now on display at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York.
