Just mere hours after her death, Marilyn was already being exploited by the media- they swarmed the funeral home she was taken to (there have been reports her corpse was stuffed in a broom closet away from prying eyes).Īn unsavoury article released by the Daily Mail in 2015 discusses the claims made by the famous funeral service, Abbott and Hast, that Marilyn looked awful upon her death. Videos were taken of the gurney rolling out of the house with her lifeless body laying upon it. The bottles of prescription drugs on her bedside cabinet were pointed out by someone posing in the infamous photograph beside her corpse. Once the news had broke of her death, paparazzi surrounded her house and images taken of her dead body in her bedroom by the police were later publicly released. She was naked in her bed, with her telephone in her hand having died from an apparent overdose. Marilyn died in her home on the 5 th of August 1962. Unfortunately, issues regarding her bodily integrity also became apparent upon her death. She was painted as the ‘dumb blond’, despite the fact she was extremely intelligent and well read, she had an interest particularly in art history and classical literature. Whilst Marilyn was proud of her body and her overt sex appeal, one cannot deny how she was manipulated and used by many around her. In life, her bodily autonomy was a subject of discussion for many a Hollywood executive. Instead of discussing the topic of her death, I have decided to discuss the post-mortem treatment of Marilyn’s body. I have read numerous articles and books, watched documentaries and listened to podcasts surrounding the circumstances of her death- with accusations of murder against the Kennedys, the Mafia and her medical team in numerous sources. Like her life, her death was also full of controversy and is subject to conspiracy. Marilyn, born Norma Jean Mortensen, is by far one of the most well-known faces from the golden era of Hollywood. ![]() Many years after Ed Feingersh died, several rolls of film were discovered revealing many of the unseen shots that appear in the exhibition.When we think of the famous starlet, Marilyn Monroe, we think of the vivacious blond bombshell so full of life on our movie screens. Some of his pictures of Marilyn were published in 1955 in Redbook Magazine. He later worked as a photo-journalist for the Pix, Inc agency. A complicated, many-sided women behind the confection Hollywood had made her.Įd Feingersh studied photography under Alexey Brodovitch at the New York School of Social Research. Vibrant and cheerful one minute, pensive and serious the next. The week culminates in a legendary appearance astride a pink elephant at a benefit performance of The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden.Īs you view these rare and intimate photographs you discover a Marilyn fluctuating between fresh faced self confidence and extreme vulnerability. Marilyn is captured relaxing in her hotel suite, dressing for events and putting on her make up. They travel incognito on the New York subway, go to costume fittings and the premiere of Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'. ![]() Pictured during her so called 'New York Exile' in early 1955 as she attempted to break free from the constraints of her contract with Twentieth Century Fox.įeingersh shadows Marilyn during the course of a tumultuous week, following her around the city as she goes about her private and public life. ![]() New York photographer Ed Feingersh can be thanked for shooting some of the most beautiful black and white photographs of Marilyn Monroe ever taken.
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