#ed feingersh

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh in New York, March 1955.

[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh, 1955.

[eternalmarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh at the Ambassador Hotel in New York City, 1955.

[joeinct]

Marilyn Monroe, Photo by Ed Feingersh, 1952-55

[undr]

Ed Feingersh. Marilyn Monroe. New York City. 1955

[dozydawn]

“Actress Jean Seberg trying on glasses at an optician's in her home town of Marshalltown, Iowa, March 1957.”

Photographed by Ed Feingersh.

[ladybegood]

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer photographed by Ed Feingersh, 1956

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"Marilyn Monroe was baptized by Aimée Semple McPherson, analyzed by Anna Freud, befriended by Carl Sandburg and Edith Sitwell, romanced (if you can call it that) by Jack and Bobby Kennedy, painted by Willem de Kooning, taught acting by Michael Chekhov and Lee Strasberg, photographed by Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. 

She managed—on the strength of limited dramatic talent and within a studio system that paid no attention to individual ambition—to work with some of the greatest directors in movie history: twice with John Huston, Billy Wilder, and Howard Hawks, and once each with George Cukor, Joseph Mankiewicz, and Laurence Olivier. 

She was the first Playboy centerfold and one of the first women to own her own production company; she was a nudist and a champion of free love long before these concepts emerged into the national consciousness. 

She maintained a deep association with the American military that, all on its own, lent her a mythic stature. When the Second World War broke out, she became both a teenage war bride and an actual Rosie the Riveter (long days spent working in the fuselage-varnishing room of the Radioplane plant in Burbank); her first cheesecake photographs were taken in the spirit of “morale boosters” for the boys overseas; her famous appearance in Korea—wriggling onstage in her purple sequined dress, popping her glorious platinum head out of the hatch of the camouflaged touring tank rolling her to the next appearance—remains the standard against which any American sex symbol sent to entertain the troops is measured. 

She was the first celebrity to talk openly about her childhood sexual abuse, a kind of admission that has become so common today that we hardly take notice of it. But to tell reporters in the 1950s that you had been raped as an 8-year-old—and to do so without shame, but rather with a justifiable sense of fury and vengeance—was a breathtaking act of self-assurance." 

From "Inventing Marilyn Monroe," by Caitlin Flanagan, in "The Atlantic," March 2013. (Photograph by Ed Feingersh.) 

[Follies Of God]

[gatabella]

Marilyn Monroe by Ed Feingersh, New York, 1955

"This is no dumb blonde. She's got guts. Marilyn is not any one thing; she's multidimensional.”

- Eli Wallach on Marilyn Monroe to Coronet magazine

[adreciclarte4]

Marilyn Monroe, 1955 by Ed Feingersh

[federer7]

Marilyn Monroe reads the newspaper ‘Motion Picture Daily’ as she relaxes on a couch in her hotel room at the Ambassador Hotel on March 24, 1955 in New York City

Photo by Ed Feingersh

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe at Morosco Theater to watch "Cat On Hot Tin Roof", March 1955. Photo by Ed Feingersh.

[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh, 1955.

[eternalmarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh in New York City, 1955.

[joeinct]

Boy on Swing, Photo by Ed Feingersh, 1952-55

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A dapper gent with a boater and bow tie leaving a restaurant on 51st Street, September 1949. "Air Conditioned for Comfort" it boasts, at a time when that luxury was in short supply.

Photo: Ed Feingersh via Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images