'Norman Mailer. Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe'

Pairing text from Norman Mailer’s original 1973 biography, 'Marilyn', with Bert Stern’s photographs from the legendary Last Sitting, this Taschen-published volume is a beautiful tribute to a complex star, who at the time of her death was the world’s most famous celebrity. Conceived by Lawrence Schiller, the tribute combines literary classic and legendary portrait-sitting — the latter drawn from an intimate, all access three-day shoot at the Bel-Air Hotel, just six weeks before Monroe's death. The result is a book that cuts through the façade of the star and sex symbol to a private life that was equal parts beautiful, tragic and complex.