Showing posts with label Marilyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marilyn. Show all posts

24 November 2010

He Said She Said

"I worked with very, very strong feelings. I photographed what I feared: aging, death, and the despair of living." - Richard Avedon
"A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone willing to become implicated in a fiction he cannot possibly know about. My concerns are not his. We have separate ambitions for the image. His need to plead his case probably goes as deep as my need to plead mine, but the control is with me." - Richard AvedonThe photographer with Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. This is one of my favourite portraits from his series, In the American West.

17 September 2010

Marilyn and the Two Greatest Mannequins

“The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls.” - Diana Vreeland
The true beauty and the two literary dames. What was she saying to them? What were they thinking of her?