# @gettyimages on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/COFiiWBgl3M
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16445398-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-04-25T11:03:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

New to gettyarchive: rarely seen images of Marilyn Monroe by Hungarian photographer Andre de Dienes, muuscollection.⁠
Having shot fashion for the likes of Vogue, Esquire & LIFE magazine, de Dienes was beginning to explore nude and landscape photography when he first met 19-year-old model Norma Jeane Baker in 1945. He would later write in his memoirs, the encounter was "as if a miracle had happened to me".⁠
The earliest colour portraits are a revelation; looking out beneath auburn-hued wavy hair in 1940s fashions, event her smile is altered.⁠
A year later, the shoot is more experimental, Monroe posing with eyes closed in a dark cloth, contrasted against her glowing skin and windswept hair - now blonde.⁠
De Dienes would work with the actress again in the early 1950s, including a remarkable session in which the photographer was summoned by Monroe at 2am, to photograph her illuminated only by the lights of his car.⁠
He would last see her in 1961. Marilyn had left a bouquet and some recent pictures outside his door: "Smiling, radiant - utterly misleading; I little guessed that this was our last goodbye".⁠
She is pictured here in a celebrated session at Long Island's Tobay Beach, Oyster Bay, New York, 1949. For more from the de Dienes collection, follow our bio link.⁠
📷: Andre de Dienes/Getty Images I muuscollection #GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠
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