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The Last Sitting: Marilyn Monroe's Final Photo Shoot With Bert Stern
In June 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot Marilyn Monroe across two separate sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air for Vogue. Six weeks later, she was dead. The story behind The Last Sitting.


The Woman on the Eiffel Tower: The Rise, the Nudes, and the Quiet Disappearance of Fashion's First Supermodel
She appeared on 200 Vogue covers, posed nude for the greatest photographers of the era, and hung off the Eiffel Tower without a harness. Then she became a sculptor and never looked back.


Le Stéréo-Nu and the Man Who Brought Boudoir Photography to Belle Époque Paris
In 1906, a sealed Parisian magazine called Le Stéréo-Nu brought erotic stereoviews to a mass audience. Behind the camera was Jean Agélou, whose most famous model went on to sit for Modigliani and marry a celebrated Japanese painter.
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