Being Bert Stern: The Life of a Photographer, Pioneer, and Provocateur

Marilyn Monroe, “The Last Sitting,” 1962.

“[Marilyn] went off into the bathroom and changed, and came out, lifted up one of the layers so that you could see through it, and she said, ‘How’s this for 36?’”
The scar apparent on her stomach is from a gall-bladder surgery that the actress underwent earlier the same year.

The tables have turned on famed bad-boy photographer Bert Stern in Bert Stern: Original Madman, a documentary directed by Shannah Laumeister, a filmmaker who, like many of the women in Bert’s life, began a love affair with the photographer through the lens of his camera.

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