![]() ![]() While he would be infamous for shooting Monroes. President” dress, which recently reigned in nearly five million dollars, the items are set to make a fortune-but more importantly, they also memorialize Marilyn at her most alive-and her most bombshell blonde, ocean spray and sand be damned. George Barris was a 20th century portrait photographer best known for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe. Judging by the going rate for her “Happy Birthday, Mr. ![]() Fifty-five years later, though, the largely unpublished photos are finally seeing the light of day thanks to an auction this week on Paddle8 that’s gathered 70 other pieces of Marilyn memorabilia-including even her eighth-grade school group photo, signed with Marilyn’s birth name, Norma Jean Baker. ![]() ![]() She was found dead on Saturday, August 4, less than twenty-four hours after Marilyn phoned him. During the days and nights that Barris saw her, she was exuberant, carefree, and eager to get on with her life. The resulting 150 photos, which stretched from beaches where Monroe writhed around in a bikini in seaweed to the Hollywood Hills where she wore heels to climb a chain-link fence, felt celebratory-until a few weeks later, when Monroe unexpectedly passed away at age 36, making the Barris sessions her final photo shoot. George Barris talked to Marilyn the final time on the afternoon of Friday, August 3rd. Back in June of 1962, Cosmopolitan assigned the photographer George Barris to capture Marilyn Monroe around Los Angeles, which he obligingly did over the course of several weeks-and, by the looks of it, over the course of more than several martinis. ![]()
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