thisworldisstillbeautiful:

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop #madball (Taken with instagram)

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“Among Marilyn Monroe’s personal belongings were dozens of prints of this portrait; she confessed it had always been her favorite, and she often included an autographed copy when she wrote back to her fans. Joshua Logan, the director of Bus Stop, gave Marilyn the photograph in an engraved triptych, flanked by two handwritten pages by Cecil Beaton recalling this shoot. Beaton saw her as a very paradoxical figure, a siren and a tightrope-walker, femme fatale and naive child, the last incarnation of an eighteenth-century face in a portrait by Greuze living in the very contemporary world of nylons, sodas, jukeboxes, and drive-ins. What really struck Cecil Beaton was Marilyn’s ability to keep transforming herself, to give the photographed a thousand variations of herself, without inhibition but with a real uncertainty and vulnerability - even though her incandescent beauty gave her the paradoxical freedom not to fuss over her clothes and her hair.” - Fragments

[pictured: Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1956]

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killuminart:

Set Us Free!

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Vogue Italia, June 1971

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hauteninacouture:

Fell in love with this instantly. Allie & I still play dolphins & mermaids at the pool (:

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national geographic, 1972 “young lovers in paris” by gordon w. gahan

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