Marilyn Monroe

Set of three photographs and a glycleé of MARILYN MONROE (Los Angeles, 1926-1962).
-Marilyn Monroe and Bob Mitchum from the film River of no return, 1954. Photograph in silver gelatin. It presents repainting. Measurements: 22,5 x 17 cm.
-Marilyn Monroe in Santa Monica photographed by George Barris, 1962". Glicleé. Presents stamp on the back of the Edward Weston Fine Art©, 1992. Measurements: 19 x 14 cm.
-Marilyn Monroe, photographed by Tom Kelley". Gelatin silver. With sticker on the back "© 1986. Playboy Earl Moran". Measurements: 22 x 21 cm.
-Marilyn Monroe hair, photographed by Milton H. Greene". Photograph. Presents folds. Measurements: 24 x 18 cm.
- "Marilyn Monroe hair, photograph by Milton H. Greene ". Photograph. Presents folds. Measurements: 24 x 18 cm.
This set brings together four pieces that cover different facets of Marilyn Monroe: the actress in the middle of filming, the model conscious of her iconic power and the intimate figure captured by close glances. Beyond the Hollywood myth, the works dialogue with each other as fragments of the same visual construction: that of a woman who became a symbol of the 20th century.
The silver gelatin photographs, with their period marks -repainting, folds, annotations and stamps- function as material traces of the editorial and cinematographic circuits that disseminated her image.
From the set of River of No Return to the spontaneous gesture of a hair in movement, the set reveals the constant tension between the public and the private, between staging and intimacy, consolidating Monroe not only as a star, but as a persistent cultural construction.