In the two months before her death, in June and July 1962, Marilyn Monroe recorded an intimate confession for her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, almost every day.
Marilyn, accompanied by two musicians on piano and double bass, looks back over 36 years of a chaotic and paradoxical career.
Marilyn Monroe seems to radiate both joy and an almost childlike energy, as well as an elaborate sexual provocation. But at the same time, while the message is intended to be simple, straightforward, even naïve, something shakes, as if slightly off-kilter. The more you look at his photos, of which there are thousands, the longer the shadows become, and something more complex, a mystery and a half-tone melancholy settle between the subject and the viewer.
Marilyn, accompanied by two musicians on piano and double bass, looks back over 36 years of a chaotic and paradoxical career.
Marilyn Monroe seems to radiate both joy and an almost childlike energy, as well as an elaborate sexual provocation. But at the same time, while the message is intended to be simple, straightforward, even naïve, something shakes, as if slightly off-kilter. The more you look at his photos, of which there are thousands, the longer the shadows become, and something more complex, a mystery and a half-tone melancholy settle between the subject and the viewer.
