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'Timeless' Marilyn Monroe Exhibit OpensMore than 200 Monroe pictures from 39 photographers -- including such celebrated lensmen as Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks, Robert Frank and Andy Warhol -- are on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in a new exhibit, "I Want to Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe",
November 12, 2004-March 20, 2005.
She was Playboy's first centerfold, and Joe DiMaggio's second wife. Marilyn Monroe possessed a knack for the big splash, particularly if there was a camera nearby -- and it seemed there was always a camera nearby.
The actress turned enduring American icon was intoxicated by the pop of flashbulbs; during her too-short lifetime, she was photographed drinking and dining, smiling and sleeping, dressed and undressed.
The camera "was to her what water is to a fish," director Billy Wilder once said. "She exulted in it."
The photos "aretimeless," said Marilyn Kushner, one of the exhibit's curators. "She died young, so she remains forever young. As time goes by, she looms larger and larger."
The exhibit traces the evolution of small-town girl Norma Jeane into sex goddess Marilyn. In a 1945 picture, the unknown 19-year-old stands alone on a Long Island beach, leaning undisturbed over an open parasol.
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