De Dienes called numerous modeling agencies until an agency sent over a young lady who had been camping out in the office, eager to get her start in Hollywood. In 1945, De Dienes was the first professional photographer to photograph a model named Norma Jeane Baker before she became Marilyn Monroe. Still fascinated by her, he asked Marilyn to accompany him to a beach in Malibu, where he took photographs for a book of poetry and philosophy he wanted to illustrate. Thug, 41, who strangled his disabled partner, 50, with a dog lead and left her body to be found two days later by her son is jailed for life

One of Marilyn’s first lovers, de Dienes photographed Monroe privately in 1945, 1946, 1949 and 1953. ben jelent meg a Marylin Mon Amour c. fekete-fehér fényképválogatása, amely több kiadást is megért.Dienes next met her on Labor Day in 1946, with her new name of Marilyn Monroe, they next worked together in 1952, where he shot her at the Bel Air Hotel and 1953, where she telephoned him at 2am, and took him to a darkened street where he used his car headlights to illuminate her, taking pictures her wide-eyed and unmade up. [2] Dienes last saw her alive in June 1961. Of their last meeting he said that "...her success was a sham, her hopes thwarted...the next day she left a bouquet outside my door: a selection of her latest photos. Smiling, radiant - utterly misleading; I little guessed that this was our last goodbye". [2] Legacy [ edit ] The year 1945 would be a highly notable one for Andre de Dienes, for this was the year he would first meet and work with the young lady the world would later come to know as Marilyn Monroe. At the time, the nineteen year old Norma Jean Baker was a model on the books of Emile Snively’s Blue Book Model Agency, and after taking a call from de Dienes and being informed of an idea for a project involving artistic nude shots, Ms. Snively informed him of Norma Jean, a new name on her books, who she thought might be interested in the job with Andre de Dienes. How cooking like granny can HALVE your grocery bills! SUSANNAH JOWITT on ways to ditch food delivery apps and ready meals and feast on a diet of stews and puddings

Végül az idillnek vége szakadt, de továbbra is barátok maradtak. Egészen 1953-ig fotózta a dívát, de nem húzott soha anyagi vagy politikai hasznot sikeréből. When he returned to California some months later, de Dienes found that the young and innocent model he knew as Norma Jeane was now a budding actress, who went by the name of Marilyn Monroe.

A Retrospective: 1934-1974

Dissatisfied with the restrictions of editorial photography, de Dienes moved to Hollywood in 1944 to pursue his real passion of photographing nudes and outdoor scenes. To support himself he freelanced for the film studios and photographed many stars including Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Reagan, Jane Russell, and Anita Ekberg, and rapidly became known as one of the top glamour photographers. Articles documenting his pioneering darkroom techniques in photomontage appeared in U.S. Camera, Figure Quarterly,Figure Annual,Classic Art Photography, and many more publications. Andre De Dienes' association with Marilyn Monroe began in 1945 when he hired her for her first modeling job at age 19. A five-week road trip photographing the young Norma Jeane across California, Nevada, and New Mexico resulted in a love affair and numerous magazine covers around the world. Their working relationship continued until 1953. Dienes was clearly smitten with Monroe – when describing his first meeting with the future star he reminisced that it was “as if a miracle had happened” and that she “seemed to be like an angel.” He was later responsible for taking some of the most iconic images of the actress in her lifetime. Két évvel később bátyjait követve az USA-ba emigrált és New Yorkban dolgozott. Arnold Gingrich az Esquire magazin alapítója segítette munkákhoz. Lapjában, majd a Vogueben és a Montgomery Ward-ban jelentek meg képei. Bedolgozott a Theater Arts című lapba is, amit a budapesti Színházi Élet korábbi tulajdonos főszerkesztője, Incze Sándor 1945-ben Amerikában alapított. Norma Jeane arrived at his hotel that afternoon. In his memoir de Dienes says, “It was as if a miracle had happened to me. From the instant I looked at her and we began to talk, her voice, her smile and her beautiful blue eyes… Norma Jeane seemed to be like an angel…an earthly, sexy-looking angel sent expressly for me!” The next day he took Norma Jeane to Paradise Cove, a secluded beach north of Malibu, and took his first photographs of her. These are some of the earliest professional photographs of the would-be star. He was instantly charmed by her vitality and enthusiasm and “wanted to take her away from Hollywood right away on a long trip. Just go with her, everywhere! I felt completely enamored by her!”

Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to announce Andre de Dienes: Marilyn and California Girls, the first solo show of photographer Andre de Dienes in New York in over ten years. The exhibition features more than fifty lifetime prints from de Dienes’ two most famous series, Marilyn Monroe and California nudes. In 1945, De Dienes (1913-1985) was the first professional photographer to photograph Marilyn when she was just a model named Norma Jeane Baker. One of Marilyn’s first lovers, de Dienes was an intimate of Marilyn and photographed her privately in 1945, 1946, 1949 and 1953. His iconic photographs capture her transformation from sensitive and ambitious ingénue into Marilyn Monroe troubled star.The rare, large-scale photographs he made on that day at the beach in 1946 show Marilyn acting out various moods – happiness, introspection, serenity and sadness.

a b Spoto, Donald (2001). Marilyn Monroe: The Biography. Rowman & Littlefield. pp.101–. ISBN 978-0-8154-1183-3 . Retrieved 2 July 2013. Marilyn, mon amour: the private album of André de Dienes, her preferred photographer, St. Martin’'s Press, New York 1985 (reprint München, Schirmer/Mosel, 1986) One evening, stranded in a snowstorm near Mt. Hood, Oregon, the two wound up at the Government Lodge. The concierge informed them that there was only one room left. After two weeks of insisting on separate cabins Norma Jeane said “Let’s take the room, let’s not worry any more about anything!” Finally in the same bed, de Dienes made his move. As de Dienes recalls “We went to bed without the slightest nervousness, as if what was happening was the most natural thing in the world. It was a strange contrast to all the days of amorous emotions I had to fight…It felt like being in heaven. Sensuality, sexuality, idealism all mixed with tension…a marvelous combination of the self and the mind, a fantastic poetic feeling of sensuous desires and mental processes of the soul until the ultimate climax of an orgasm. The passion lasted for several hours. It was poetry and reality all mixed! [Afterwards] Norma Jeane was hugging me, I was kissing her tears. She said she had never had an orgasm before in her life. Young love, clashed in complete sincerity, was the end result that night. Why couldn’t I have made her pregnant? I asked myself ever after.”As well as Monroe, Dienes also photographed such notable actors as Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Reagan, Jane Russell, Anita Ekberg and Fred Astaire. [2] Though the trip resulted in a brief marital engagement, de Dienes returned to New York and their romance did not withstand the distance. Dienes began work as a professional photographer for the Communist newspaper L'Humanité, and was employed by the Associated Press until 1936, when the On Labor Day 1946, Norma Jeane called de Dienes to her apartment. She told him she had a new name and in her flowery script wrote out Marilyn Monroe. De Dienes took the newly named Marilyn again to a deserted beach. After reading from a book of philosophical poetry, Marilyn posed for de Dienes interpreting various moods. In these photographs we see a bare-faced Marilyn embodying happiness, pensiveness, introspection, serenity, sadness and even death. When acting out death, she looks solemnly and painfully at the ground. When de Dienes asked her why her face appeared tormented in death instead of calm and peaceful, she insisted that was how she imagined her death.