Marilyn Monroe Vintage Note / Greeting Card (Elliott Erwitt NEW YORK 1957) Ⓒ1989

Description: Marilyn Monroe Vintage Note / Greeting Card (Elliott Erwitt NEW YORK 1957) Ⓒ1989 About this product Unused note or greeting card featuring a photograph of Marilyn Monroe relaxing with a script, photo by Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1956 About the photographer Renowned for his humanistic photographs, Elliott Erwitt was born in Paris in 1928, spent his childhood in Milan, and then moved to the United States and settled with his parents in Los Angeles. His early interest in photography began while he was in Hollywood where he found a job in a darkroom, processing movie star headshots. However, Erwitt’s career truly flourished when he relocated from the West Coast to New York in 1948. Swapping janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research, Erwitt began to socialise with the city’s great pioneers of humanist photography, including Edward Steichen and Robert Capa, and joined Capa’s Magnum Photos agency in 1953. Erwitt received many cinematic assignments, and also befriended like-minded souls, including the New York playwright Arthur Miller, whom he shot in 1954. That year Erwitt also photographed Miller’s future wife Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Seven Year Itch, also in NYC. Both Miller and Monroe were subjects Erwitt would retufrn to over the years. This 1956 photograph of Marilyn was taken the year the couple married, and catches the star, again in New York, during one of her happier moments. Though she often played dumb blondes, Monroe was a more voracious reader than many knew; letters to her psychoanalyst were peppered with bookish references, and this picture, shot again in New York, seems to convey some of that intelligence. Condition Notes33 year old vintage item, . . never used, . . showing light shelf wear consistent with age (see images) card shows evidence of small corners bumps (see images) 1/2 inch crease visible on right side of card above Marilyn's head (see images)

Price: 90 CAD

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

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