Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes, 1953.
Their last shoot together happened late one night in 1953. Marilyn phoned de Dienes and told him she could not sleep. She proposed that they meet to take pictures somewhere in a dark valley in Beverly Hills. Without a flash or professional lighting, he lit Marilyn’s face with the headlight of his car. This was the first time that de Dienes “came face to face with the dark side of Marilyn,” he said. Although they stayed in touch until her death in 1962, that night in Beverley Hills was the last time he ever photographed her.
