Bert Stern (Am.1929-2013) Lolita Press Camera Magazine

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  Bert Stern (American, 1929-2013) Lolita Press Color Proof Sheet for Camera Magazine 1979. Cover of magazine features Sue Lyon with lollipop and heart shaped sunglasses from Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Lolita. The sheet is autographed by Bert Stern and inscribed to Sarah 79 in red ink. From the East Hampton, NY estate of artist Nancy Ann Reals Perl Benderoth (1933-3018), and her daughter Sarah, good friends of Bert Stern. Measures 18 inches high, 12.7 inches wide. In good condition with slight wrinkling. Unframed.
  
  Stern was the son of Jewish immigrants and grew up in Brooklyn. His father worked as a children's portrait photographer. After dropping out of high school at the age of 16, he gained a job in the mail room at Look magazine. He became art director at Flair magazine, where Stern learned how to develop film and make contact sheets, and started taking his own pictures. In 1951, Stern was drafted into the United States Army, sent to Japan and assigned to the photographic department. In the 1960s, his heavy use of amphetamines led to the end of his marriage to ballerina Allegra Kent. He was one of the last photographers to shoot Marilyn Monroe, in June and July 1962 for Vogue magazine. Monroe died in August 1962. These sessions became known as The Last Sitting; The 2571 photographs taken on these sessions were published after her death in The Complete Last Sitting in 1992. In the 1970s, Stern moved to Spain to recover from his drug addiction. By the late 1970s, Stern returned to the U.S. to photograph portraits and fashion. In 1979, he published The Pill Book, along with journalist Lawrence Chilnick. This A to Z guide of the most prescribed drugs in the US, which sold 18 million copies, included color photographs of the pills by Stern. Stern was the son of Jewish immigrants and grew up in Brooklyn. His father worked as a children's portrait photographer. After dropping out of high school at the age of 16, he gained a job in the mail room at Look magazine. He became art director at Flair magazine, where Stern learned how to develop film and make contact sheets, and started taking his own pictures. In 1951, Stern was drafted into the United States Army, sent to Japan and assigned to the photographic department. In the 1960s, his heavy use of amphetamines led to the end of his marriage to ballerina Allegra Kent. He was one of the last photographers to shoot Marilyn Monroe, in June and July 1962 for Vogue magazine. Monroe died in August 1962. These sessions became known as The Last Sitting; The 2571 photographs taken on these sessions were published after her death in The Complete Last Sitting in 1992. In the 1970s, Stern moved to Spain to recover from his drug addiction. By the late 1970s, Stern returned to the U.S. to photograph portraits and fashion. In 1979, he published The Pill Book, along with journalist Lawrence Chilnick. This A to Z guide of the most prescribed drugs in the US, which sold 18 million copies, included color photographs of the pills by Stern.
  
  Janet Lehr Fine Arts: Photographer Bert Stern spent three sessions with Marilyn Monroe shooting for Vogue Magazine in Los Angeles Hotel Bel-Air in late June 1962, six weeks before the great star's death. These sessions produced extraordinarily beautiful and unique images of Marilyn. Bert Stern's career exemplifies the concept of the commercial photographer as a cultural hero. Money, power, and celebrity have made him almost as much of an icon as the famous faces he has photographed. He has become the prototype of the fashion photographer as the embodiment of glamour. Stern's photography career happened almost as a fluke. Working as a messenger and mail clerk at Look magazine in 1947, Art Director Herschel Bramson, recognizing something special, encouraged Stern to study art books at the library, and visit the Museum of Modern Art. But it was Irving Penn's work that really galvanized Stern's desire to be a photographer. Drafted during the Korean War, Stern photographed the troops' ships heading to Japan. These later became his first published photographs. Upon his return to the United States, Stern explored advertising photography, and achieved success with his work for Smirnoff Vodka, including one of the most famous images: A Giza pyramid reflected upside down in a martini glass. Bert Stern went on to photograph for Vogue, the premiere fashion magazine, and married Allegra Kent, a principal dancer with the New York Ballet. These events expanded his interest in shooting the arts, and he began to concentrate his efforts on fashion and celebrity portraiture. His best known work is arguably a collection of 2,500 photographs, some nude or semi-nude, taken of Marilyn Monroe, American idol's, in three sittings over a three day period, six weeks before her death. As they were the last posed photographs taken of Monroe, the portfolio has come to be known as The Last Sitting. The photographs were taken for Vogue, who published several of them following Monroe's death. Vogue wanted the Marilyn Monroe shoot and Marilyn Monroe chose Bert Stern as her photographer. A book containing these photographs, including copies of proofs over which Monroe had written comments, or crossed out with lipstick, was published in 1992 with the title Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting. Vogue published eight pages of the fashion shoot the day after Monroe died. Twenty years later, in 1982, Vogue ran 12 pages of the nude images only. The fashion images are bold and wonderfully expressive in a formal way, while Monroe playing with the chiffon scarves show her endlessly improvising her poses and expressions are the less formal. Several images among The Last Sitting series also carry thick ink crosses indicating that she vetoed them. The Bert Stern Marilyn show, The Last Sitting, opened in June 2006 at the small Musee Maillol on the Left Bank. The exhibition shows Monroe's transition from pinup girl to 20th-century Venus. In a catalog essay Mr. Lorquin's brother, Bertrand, a curator at the museum, evokes the nudes of Botticelli, Rubens, Velázquez, Goya, Ingres and Manet to give Monroe's sculptured curves a place in art history. Bert Stern also directed Jazz on a Summer's Day, a 1959 documentary film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. In 1999 the film was deemed culturally significant by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Stern worked as a photographer on the film Lolita (1962) and was responsible for the publicity photographs of its star Sue Lyon. He has photographed Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra, and celebrities such as Audrey Hepburn, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Lucille Ball, Goldie Hawn and Drew Barrymore in addition to his work for advertising and travel publications. In 2005 Stern received the Man of the Year award from the prestigious annual Art Directors Guild. Bert Stern's photography has been exhibited all over the world, including Tokyo, London, and New York. I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe, was shown at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; and in 2006 at the Bass Museum in Miami FL. Also in June of 2006, The Last Sitting opened at the small Musee Maillol on the Left Bank to throngs of people. The show was so well received that it was extended two times.
  
  From the EastHamptonStar - Feb. 21, 2018:Obituary - Nancy Ann Reals Perl Benderoth, an artist, designer, and producer of a documentary film that was nominated for an Academy Award, died at her Jericho Road, East Hampton, house on Feb. 6. Her family, who were with her at the end, said the cause of death was cardiac arrest brought on by pneumonia. She was 84 and had been in declining health for several years. She was born to Barney Reals and the former Annabel Whitney in Brooklyn on April 26, 1933, and grew up in the gated community of Seagate, adjacent to Coney Island. A lifelong painter, she attended Cooper Union and the Art Students League, both in Manhattan. Locally, she studied at the Art Barge on Napeague with Victor D’Amico of the Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Perl also worked as an assistant to other artists and as a stylist for such well-known photographers as Bert Stern and Irving Penn. At one time, she had a career in advertising, working for Mary Wells Lawrence at Wells, Rich, and Greene. Her husband had been collaborating with James Baldwin on a dramatic production of the life of Malcolm X, which eventually became a film. It was was incomplete when Mr. Perl died, and Ms. Perl, a producer on the project, stepped in. Working with the editor of the film, Mick Benderoth, the film was completed, and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1972. Ms. Perl and Mr. Benderoth began collaborating both professionally and personally. They formed a film production company, called Benderoth-Perl, and were married on Christmas Eve in 1990. She and Arnold Perl, a playwright, screenwriter, and producer were married in 1956. A former member of the Communist Party, Mr. Perl had been blacklisted and sold television scripts through a front. Though not a member of the Communist Party, she shared many of her husband's political beliefs. They met in the world of theater through Bernard Gersten, co-founder along with Joseph Papp of the Public Theater in Manhattan. She was an informal consultant on costumes and props for the 1953 stage production of Sholem Aleichem, which her husband wrote. Mr. Perl also wrote Tevya and His Daughters, a basis for Fiddler on the Roof. In the early 1960s, the Perl family began summering in East Hampton. They were attracted by the many artists and writers and found many kindred spirits here. The family rented a house on Jericho Road for the summer of 1964, with the understanding that the rent could be applied toward a purchase price. They bought it for $36,000. A few years later, the couple also purchased a townhouse on East 18th Street in Manhattan. East Hampton became the center of their family's life, however, said Sarah Perl, one of the couple's daughters, and enjoyed living year round here. They were not religious and celebrated both Jewish culture and heritage as well as Christmas. Ms. Perl said yesterday that when the family spent a Christmas away from Jericho Road, in a house without a fireplace, she asked her mother how Santa would get in. Don't worry, was the answer, I will let him in. Ms. Perl Benderoth loved spending long days at Georgica Beach or Louse Point, going in the morning and staying until sunset. Her daughter said her mother would frequently take a black skillet and a stick of butter to Louse Point, where they would seine for and fry minnows. She would often stuff plums into the bottom of an ice-packed carrier. You would stick your arm in up to your elbow, and pull them out, Ms. Perl recalled. Her mother opened the Boutique at Enrico Caruso at 110 East 55th Street in Manhattan in 1965, where, her daughter said she sold the best of everything, including Viennese pastries made by her 70-year-old mother in a tiny kitchen in the Stuyvesant Town apartment complex.
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