André de Dienes. Marilyn Monroe

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As well as the iconic Marilyn Monroe, de Dienes also photographed Hollywood heavyweights such as Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Reagan, Jane Russell, Anita Ekberg and Fred Astaire. He was considered one of the best, if not the best glamour photographer working in Hollywood at the time, and his pioneering techniques from behind the lens to behind the curtain in the darkroom were well documented in major publications such as Classic Art Photography, U.S Camera and figure Annual to name a few. Andre de Dienes was born in 1913 in what is now Romania. After arriving in Paris in 1933, he became a photographer for the Communist newspaper L’Humanité. He began working as a fashion photographer for Parisian couturiers and moved to New York in 1938 with the help of Esquire magazine editor Arnold Gingrich. In New York he photographed for Esquire, Vogue and Life. In 1951, de Dienes moved to Hollywood and began to photograph movie stars and to experiment with nudes and landscapes. His memoir Marilyn Mon Amour was published in 1985. In 2002, Taschen published de Dienes monumental monograph simply titled Marilyn. In addition, 24 books of his nudes have been published. 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) In 1962, while preparing a pitch for Life magazine, de Dienes decided to dig up boxes of negatives, prints, articles and letters which he had buried ten years earlier when his photo laboratory was severely damaged in a storm. To his surprise the unpublished negatives from their early shoots remained mostly intact. A few weeks later, on August 5, 1962, De Dienes heard on the radio that Marilyn was found dead in her Brentwood home. Over the next ten years, de Dienes made the first prints of these never-before-seen photographs. In these prints, his lifelong obsession is revealed again. His final prints of Marilyn are a series of surreal idolatry, superimposing her face onto sunsets, seascapes, nightscapes, and beds of flowers.

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.

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In his memoirs he remembers the first time he met Norma Jean vividly and with much affection and enthusiasm; “ When Norma Jean arrived at my bungalow later in the afternoon, it was as if a miracle had happened to me. Norma Jean seemed to be like an angel. I could hardly believe it for a few moments. An earthly, sexy-looking angel! Sent expressly for me! The impact Norma Jean had on me was tremendous. As minutes passed, I fell more and more in love with Norma Jean; there was an immediate rapport between us. She responded to everything I said. She started to look around in my room examining all the pictures I put on the walls and began asking questions. I had the immediate feeling that she was something special, something different from most girls and models I had met before her, mainly because she was so eager to ask questions about me and the pictures I put on the walls. She wanted to know many things right away, she was interested in me! She was utterly sincere; she did not wish to speak about herself, except when I asked her my own questions. She was sincere in wanting to know who I was and what I was doing with my life, and I began to amuse her exceedingly with all sorts of stories that ran through my mind and I just kept dishing them out to her. I still remember it as clearly as if it happened just recently“ His series of pin-up shots of her at Long Island's Tobay Beach, in Oyster Bay, New York became notable. [3] Andor György Ikafalvi-Dienes (born , December 18, 1913 – April 11, 1985), known as André de Dienes, was a Hungarian photographer, noted for his work with Marilyn Monroe and his nude photography. Their last shoot together happened late one night in 1953. Marilyn phoned de Dienes and told him she could not sleep. She proposed that they meet to take pictures somewhere in a dark valley in Beverly Hills. Without a flash or professional lighting, he lit Marilyn’s face with the headlight of his car. She posed sad and lonely. This was the first time that de Dienes came face to face with the dark side of Marilyn. De Dienes stayed in touch with Marilyn until her death in 1962, but never photographed her again after 1953. TASCHEN. "André de Dienes. Marilyn. TASCHEN Books (Midi-Format)". www.taschen.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-04 . Retrieved 2016-06-07.

In 1933 de Dienes arrived in Paris to study art and bought his first Rolleiflex camera. Fascinated with taking pictures, he made a living selling photographs to publishing companies, including Lb Humanite (a Communist newspaper), and worked for The Associated Press until 1936 when famous Parisian couturier Captain Edward Molyneux encouraged de Dienes to become a fashion photographer. In addition to the many fashion assignments from Molyneux, de Dienes created thousands of portraits and street images in Paris, and all over France, from 1935 to 1938. Very few of these images have survived, however, de Dienes continued capturing a wide range of subjects throughout his career. 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. Gyorsan ismertté vált, az egyik legnépszerűbb sztárfotósaként tartották nyilván a maga korában. Sok képe és cikke jelent meg a kor vezető magazinjaiban, úttörő szerepe volt a különböző labor-technikák, képmanipulációk, mint a fotómontázs, a szolarizáció, a tónusmódosítás alkalmazásában.But de Dienes preferred “a very casual Marilyn” for his pictures. He took her out of Manhattan to Tobay Beach on Long Island. “She returned to the innocent girl I first met,” de Dienes said. In 1945, De Dienes was the first professional photographer to photograph a model named Norma Jeane Baker before she became Marilyn Monroe. Moment two women at Islamic group's protest during pro-Palestine rally are arrested for holding Arabic signs that read 'How beautiful it is to be a soldier of Allah' as they tell officers not to 'take it out of context' Churchwell, Sarah (2004). The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 0-8050-7818-5. In 1945, fashion photographer Andre de Dienes developed a relationship with an aspiring young model named Norma Jean Dougherty resulting in a brief engagement and a huge portfolio of stunning photographs which helped to launch her career as Marilyn Monroe.

Though the trip resulted in a brief marital engagement, de Dienes returned to New York and their romance did not withstand the distance. When he returned to California some months later, de Dienes found that the young and innocent model he knew as Norma Jeane had been made over into the coy budding actress Marilyn Monroe. Still fascinated by Marilyn’s expressive face, he asked her to accompany him to a beach in Malibu to take photographs for a book of poetry and philosophy he wanted to illustrate. The rare large scale photographs he made in 1946 depict Marilyn acting out various moods including happiness, introspection, serenity and sadness. Booker Prize judges deny this year's winner was influenced by last week's riots in Dublin - as Paul Lynch's novel Prophet Song which describes police and protesters clashing in Ireland is handed the award 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.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 Anyja, Uzoni Zayzon Piroska 1925-ben kútba vetette magát. Az öngyilkosságtól megrendült család – az akkorra Romániához csatolt Székelyföldről – Budapestre települt. Innen elsőként a legidősebb bátyja, Kálmán költözött Amerikába, majd követte másik bátyja, László is. a b Spoto, Donald (2001). Marilyn Monroe: The Biography. Rowman & Littlefield. pp.101–. ISBN 978-0-8154-1183-3 . Retrieved 2 July 2013. He began working as a fashion photographer for Parisian couturiers and moved to New York in 1938, with the help of Esquire magazine editor Arnold Gingrich. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200410/http://www.hirmondo.ro/web/index.php/korkepek/kezdivasarhelyi-korkep/44471-hollywoodi-sztrfots.html

I was de-banked by Barclays! Landlord is left ‘incandescent’ with rage after High Street bank shuts down his family business account without warning... leaving tenants unable to pay him rent ban a Monroe-rajongók egy csoportja feldúlta Diénes korábbi lakását. Ekkor került elő több mint 2000 – részben privát – fotó, amelyeket a művész soha nem publikált. A fényképek mellett előkerültek Diénes titkos emlékiratai, amelyek a szerelem és a barátság szemszögéből mutatják be az érzékeny és ambiciózus Norma Jane átalakulását Marylin Monroe-vá, a zaklatott dívává. Diénes fényképei és feljegyzési feltárják Norma Jeane életének kevéssé ismert oldalát édesanyjának elmegyógyintézetbeli meglátogatásától egészen pár nappal halála előtti hazalátogatásáig. Later, more troubling sides of Marilyn emerged. At 2:30am one morning in 1953, suffering from insomnia, Marilyn called de Dienes and proposed that he take pictures of her in a dark alleyway. Lighting her only with the headlights of his car, the photographs show us a sad and forlorn Marilyn. De Dienes wrote, “Was she just playing a melodrama in those pictures, or was she conscious that something was wrong in her life, that something tragic would happen to her?” These haunting images are the last photographs de Dienes would ever take of her. Az 1940-50-es évek legnagyobb hollywoodi stúdiók sztárjait fényképezte, egyebek mellett Ingrid Bergmannt, Elisabeth Taylort, Shirley Templet, Marlon Brandot, Henry Fondat, Fred Astairet, Ronald Reagant, Anita Ekberget és főként Marilyn Monroe-t, akit ő fedezett fel.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. In the summer of 1949, Marilyn’s star began to rise. In New York for the first time she called de Dienes, telling him: “Andre, let’s take pictures again! Let’s make history! Do you have a nice bathing suit I can wear?” Snively told Dienes of Norma Jeane, and suggested her for his project of photographing artistic nudes. [2] In his memoirs Dienes described the first time he met Monroe saying "...it was as if a miracle had happened to me. Norma Jeane seemed to be like an angel. I could hardly believe it for a few moments. An earthly, sexy-looking angel! Sent expressly for me!". [2]