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The legendary photographs of Marilyn Monroe from Bert Stern’s
“The Last Sitting” are the subject of this exhibition at Staley-Wise Gallery.

Bert Stern’s contract at VOGUE allowed him to photograph 10 pages of his own choice in the magazine. He chose to photograph Marilyn and the shoot took place at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles in June 1962. Marilyn died shortly after on August 4, 1962 at the age of thirty-six and these photographs became known as “The Last Sitting”. In the intervening years her considerable fame has taken on mythic proportions, and it has been photographs which have fanned …