ANDRE DE DIENES: MARILYN MONROE (TASCHEN 45TH) (HB)

One day in 1945, fashion photographer André de Dienes met an aspiring model named Norma Jeane Dougherty. Over the next few years, they were briefly engaged and took a number of road trips together. This collection offers an intimate picture of Norma Jeane the woman, before she was Marilyn the icon. From their trip to see Norma Jeane’s mother in a mental hospital to Marilyn’s visit a few days before her death, de Dienes's emotion-laden archive, often annotated with handwritten notes, offers a deeply personal account of Monroe's transformation from a sensitive, ambitious girl into a deeply troubled global star.