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Marilyn Monroe

by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum)
chromogenic print, 1954
Purchased, 2012
Photographs Collection
NPG x137338

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Baron took around fifty shots of Monroe in his friend Harry Crocker's landscaped garden on North Rodeo Drive. According to Baron, his black and white and colour portraits of Monroe bathed in the fading Californian sun were 'some of the best photographs I have ever taken.... 'I didn't even need to say the corny words 'Hold it'. She knew. My shutter clicked and clicked.' The photographs were syndicated internationally, here featuring on the cover of Turkish magazine Hayat. Monroe, pictured here during her nine month marriage to baseball player Joe DiMaggio, was to Baron 'one of the most appealing people I had ever met.'

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  • Place made and portrayed: United States (Harry Crocker's garden, North Rodeo Drive, California, United States)

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