MARILYN MONROE
"A Life in Pictures"

Exhibition: 4 May – 24 June, 2017

The group exhibition will showcase approx. 70 photographs, including some very rare images. Among them are an early photograph of a Valentine’s Day chocolate advertisement, Norma Jeane’s first cover photo for a U.S. magazine (Romance), the legendary “flying skirt” (by Elliott Erwitt and Bernard of Hollywood) for the film “The Seven Year Itch” and virtually unknown, very private photographs of Marilyn Monroe with the notable American writer Carl Sandburg by Arnold Newman and images of the legendary pool scene by Lawrence Schiller.

Marilyn Monroe (*June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California as Norma Jeane Mortenson, baptismal name Norma Jeane Baker; † August 5, 1962 in Brentwood, Los Angeles) was a U.S.-American actress, model, singer, and film producer. In the 1950s, she gained international acclaim as a movie star, later becoming an icon of the silver screen and a sex symbol of the 20th century.

A catalog with more than 100 pages and around 70, mostly full-page illustrations with a text by Andreas J. Mueller, director of the Deutsches Fotomuseum in Leipzig-Markkleeberg will accompany the exhibition.

MARILYN MONROE
"A Life in Pictures"

Ausstellung: 4. Mai bis 24. Juni 2017
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 4. Mai, 19 Uhr

Marilyn Monroe, 1926 in Los Angeles geboren als Norma Jeane Mortenson, ist die wohl bekannteste weibliche Stilikone und Hollywood-Legende des 20. Jahrhunderts. In der aktuellen Ausstellung werden zahlreiche Original-Fotografien von insgesamt neun weltbekannten Fotografen gezeigt, auf denen Marilyn Monroe vor und hinter den Kulissen ihres turbulenten Lebens zu sehen ist.