I don't think I could ever tire of images of Marilyn Monroe. Always on, always aware, yet never guarded. Undeniably beautiful, she had a unique magnetism with the lense. The Museo Ferragamo in Italy is currently featuring a currated collection of intimate photos of the blonde bombshell.
via Museo Ferragamo
Marilyn
Exhibition’s curators: Stefania Ricci and
Sergio Risaliti
The Museo Ferragamo in Florence pays homage to
Marilyn Monroe with a major exhibition dedicated to her a half century after
her death.
Like other divas of the silver screen (Audrey
Hepburn, Greta Garbo), Marilyn also loved to wear Salvatore Ferragamo shoes.
The exhibition is the result of long research and preparatory work, presenting
items from the actress’s wardrobe worn on the set or in her private life, as
well as important documents that reveal the actress’s managerial side, her
skill and determination in building and grooming her success.
A well endowed collection of photographs of
Marilyn taken in her day-to-day life are juxtaposed with the power of the
archetype and the endurance of the myth, the greatness of which perhaps resides
in the star’s double nature as spiritualized female and pop icon.
Measuring themselves against the myth and the
chronicles, the curators have sought to interpret the genesis of certain famous
photographs (by Beaton, Stern, Barris, Greene) portraying Marilyn in ‘classic’
poses. They have compared these portraits with famous works of art from the
past, representing the memory of similar poses and expressions, from the
balanced pathos of the Head of Alexander
Dying to Botticelli’s Venus.
