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The Last Sitting (Marilyn Monroe, with pearls) by Bert Stern
Commercial photographer Bert Stern’s fashion portraiture of Marilyn Monroe with her pearls for Vogue is very intimate. These photographs were taken at Hotel Bel-Air in LA in a three-day-shoot, six weeks before her tragic death. The pearls featured in these images are Mikimoto Pearls gifted to her by the Emperor of Japan during her…