Susan Bernard Bücher

Er gilt als ihr Entdecker und schoss auch das weltberühmte Foto von Marilyn Monroe im weißen Kleid über dem U- Bahn-Gitter: der legendäre Hollywood-Pin-up-Fotograf Bruno Bernard. Ihm fiel die noch unbekannte Schönheit eines Tages auf der Straße auf und er vereinbarte spontan einen Fototermin mit ihr. Dieser großformatige Bildband wird von Bernards Tochter herausgegeben und zeigt viele unbekannte Fotos aus der frühen Schaffenszeit der 'blonden Göttin'. Aus Faksimile-Dokumenten, Kommentaren von Zeitzeugen und zahlreichen Anekdoten entsteht ein dichtes, intimes Bild von Monroes Leben und Charakter. Vom ersten Shooting über die Highlights ihrer Karriere bis zu ihrem sagenumwobenen Ende.

A collection of 25 photographs of red-haired female performers, both famous and obscure, from the Hollywood of the 1940s-60s. The photographer, Bruno Bernard, was well-known for his portraits of Hollywood stars, and is credited with promoting pin-up photography to a recognized art form.

Includes frameable print! 2012 is the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, and this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates her enduring beauty through photographs by legendary Hollywood photographer Bruno Bernard. Bernard's iconic photograph of Marilyn standing over the subway grate in a billowing white dress is synonymous with Hollywood glamour and sex appeal, and many of the images here have never before been published. They cover key moments in Marilyn's life, including her first professional sitting in 1946, all enlivened by fascinating excerpts from Bruno's journal. Fans of the blonde bombshell will also treasure the stunning, frameable print included with this keepsake book, and both Jane Russell (Marilyn's co-star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and Lindsay Lohan have contributed forewords.

The daughter of the late Sunset Boulevard photographer narrates an illustrated tribute that chronicles Marilyn Monroe's professional relationship with Bernard through photographs he took of her over a period of seventeen years.

He has been called the ""Rembrandt of photography"" and the ""King of glamour."" Though he also photographed male luminaries such as John Wayne, Gregory Peck, and Elvis Presley, Bernard of Hollywood made his name doing portraits of female stars and starlets of the 1950s such as Anita Ekberg, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot, and Marilyn Monroe. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, migrating to California and eventually establishing himself in Hollywood.