Marilyn Monroe
from the Ballerina series
photographed by Milton Greene
©2008 Joshua Greene
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“Marilyn never had a father, and she shuttled between foster families… Milton incorporated her into his family. He provided a kind of sanctuary that was both professional and personal. She trusted him and relaxed with him, so there’s not that sex-goddess tension you see in most Marilyn pictures.”
– Carol Squiers, curator at the International Center of Photography in New York
The quote above is reproduced from a wonderful article, titled Model Arrangement by Michelle Stacey, in the May 2008 issue of Smithsonian magazine, on the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and photographer Milton H Greene during the 1950s.
In this article, Greene’s son Joshua is quoted as saying, “Everything leading up to 1953 was either on-set photography or glamour shots… My father was determined to break that mold and capture the real person, the soul, the emotion.”
The ballerina series on Marilyn Monroe (by Milton Greene) can be found here.
[Citation: Image, quotes and the title of this blog are reproduced from Model Arrangement an article by Michelle Stacey, Smithsonian magazine, May 2008.]
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