George Barris Marilyn Monroe at Auction via #constantcontact

George Barris Marilyn Monroe at Auction via #constantcontact.

Marilyn Monroe’s Celebrated by the Launch of a New Social Network

A new and vibrant Social Network is being launched by This is Marilyn Inc., creator of the World’s First Marilyn Monroe Social Network, to celebrate the life of Marilyn Monroe.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 1, 2009 — This Monday marks Marilyn Monroe’s 83rd Birthday. It also marks the birth of a new and exciting Social Network dedicated to serving Marilyn Monroe fans the world over. Members of the ThisIsMarilyn.com team will be announcing the site as well as celebrating her life at the Annual birthday party in Los Angeles where Marilyn spent much of her glamorous adult life. The party held by Greg Schreiner, president of Marilyn Remembered, is one of the longest running and most respected gatherings by fans of Marilyn Monroe.

To celebrate the launch of www.thisismarilyn.com the site is giving away $100,000 in highly sought after vintage photographs and limited edition prints. They include original photographs and signed prints from personal friends of Marilyn Monroe, Andre de Dienes and George Barris. The contest which starts on June 1st, 2009 (Marilyn Monroe’s Birthday) will award 55 prizes ranging in value from $800 to a grand prize worth over $15,000 will end on August 4th (the anniversary of her death). Official rules will be posted on the website. The contest is being sponsored One West Publishing, Inc., and Marilyn Remembered .

ThisIsMarilyn – A social network for Marilyn Monroe fans! Click logo to go to This Is Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe’s Birthday Celebrated by the Launch of a New Social Network

A new and vibrant Social Network is being launched by This is Marilyn Inc., creator of the World’s First Marilyn Monroe Social Network, to celebrate the life of Marilyn Monroe.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 1, 2009 — This Monday marks Marilyn Monroe‘s 83rd Birthday. It also marks the birth of a new and exciting Social Network dedicated to serving Marilyn Monroe fans the world over. Members of the ThisIsMarilyn.com team will be announcing the site as well as celebrating her life at the Annual birthday party in Los Angeles where Marilyn spent much of her glamorous adult life. The party held by Greg Schreiner, president of Marilyn Remembered, is one of the longest running and most respected gatherings by fans of Marilyn Monroe.

To celebrate the launch of www.thisismarilyn.com the site is giving away $100,000 in highly sought after vintage photographs and limited edition prints. They include original photographs and signed prints from personal friends of Marilyn Monroe, Andre de Dienes and George Barris. The contest which starts on June 1st, 2009 (Marilyn Monroe’s Birthday) will award 55 prizes ranging in value from $800 to a grand prize worth over $15,000 will end on August 4th (the anniversary of her death). Official rules will be posted on the website. The contest is being sponsored One West Publishing, Inc., and Marilyn Remembered .

ThisIsMarilyn.com has comparable features and functions compared to today’s popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. However, the ThisIsMarilyn.com Social Community is special, in that it provides additional features, which are ‘unique’ to Marilyn Fans and Community.

Exclusive ThisisMarilyn.com members have access to include:
* Win Over $100,000 in Marilyn Photos
* Meet New Marilyn Monroe Fans Around the World
* Watch, Comment and Discuss Marilyn Monroe Videos Online
* Start a Blog
* Comment on Fan Blogs
* Update Friends on Your Status (Micro Blogging Similar to Twitter)
* Create a This Is Marilyn Profile
* It’s 100% free to join!
More features are continually being added as the community evolves and membership grows. Fans can express their adoration for Marilyn Monroe, while creating a growing network of friendships and acquaintances as they interact and converse with other members.

All members can easily create profiles, connect with other fans, watch videos and comment on videos. Users can also create their own MM blog or create their own.

ThisIsMarilyn.com is a unique Social Network like no other, designed especially for Marilyn Monroe fans.

Julien’s Summer Auctions 2009

 

Marilyn Monroe 1949 by Andre de Dienes

THE estate of Andre de Dienesis is visiting Newbridge Silverware again. Vintage prints and items from the photo shoots with de Dienes and the screen’s most legendary blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, are currently on display at Newbridge Silverware’s Museum of style Icons.

 

 

The world-exclusive preview at the Newbridge Silverware Museum of Style Icons will include clothing from Monroe’s personal and professional wardrobe and furniture from her Brentwood, California hacienda style home.

The over 150 pieces offered for sale will include pieces never before auctioned from Monroe’s one-time personal secretary Peter Leonardi as well as items previously sold at the ground breaking Christie’s and Julien’s Auctions Monroe Estate auctions.

Among the items offered for sale are an orange Pucci blouse ($7,000-9,000) seen in photographs taken of Monroe by George Barris. Andre de Dienes photographed Marilyn Monroe in 1949 at Tobey Beach and those photographs along with the umbrella ($16,000- $18,000) used in this shoot, as seen on the catalog cover are available for purchase.

Monroe’s film-worn evening jacket from The Prince and The Showgirl ($20,000- $25,000) will also be on public display.

The highlights of the estate of Marilyn Monroe will be on display at Newbridge Silverware until Monday June 1.

The display has been arranged in conjunction with Los Angeles auction house Julien’s Auctions, who also organised the recent Michael Jackson display at the showrooms.

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‘New Style in Nude Photography‘,

Some say you can judge a man by the way he furnishes his home. If that’s true, photographer Andre de dienes is just about the most interesting guy ever heard tell about. Indeed, he has a model on the sun porch, one in the bed, and one each on the two stone tables in the living room.

De dienes was the most celebrated photographer of the female nude in the post war era. He had emigrated from Transylvania to the United States in 1938, initially making a career for himself in both New York and Hollywood as a fashion, advertising, and celebrity photographer. In fact de Dienes was the first photographer to hire Marilyn Monroe ( then Norma Jean Baker) to serve as a model. After a month long photographic journey through the West in 1945, the two had become engaged. Although Monroe later broke off the engagement, they remained close friends, and de Dienes continued to photograph her. After moving to a secluded hillside home near Hollywood in the early 50s, he began to distinguish himself as a photographer of “ highly polished” female nudes. In fact, Jorge Lewinski credits de Dienes with creating a ‘new style in nude photography‘, that of “slim, long legged nudes, running and jumping in the wide expanses of the California dunes, and forming strong patterns of light and shade.” It was these photographs that appealed to Hugh Hefner —artistic, yet erotic—–and it was de Dienes lifestyle that Hefner wanted to sell. Indeed, de Dienes later admitted what had long been assumed: An intimacy develop between a photographer and a model which often means that a long day of shooting would end up in bed, or failing that, on the grass or on a sandy beach. De Dienes felt like one with his models and they loved his beautiful work.

 
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Barris, de Dienes Annual $100.00 Sale

Sam Ellis Prints is a primer on-line eBay store. Specializing in Hollywood Glamour, still life and Nudes. Artist such as Andre de Dienes, George Barris, Ken Sax and more.

Every Year before we get new prints for the Holidays we have an Annual $100.00 Sale. Please stop by and take a look at some of the great vintage prints we have listed in our sale . Take close look at some of the great vintage prints and limited editions prints we have for sale. If you see something you like we encourage you to make an offer.

* FREE shipping for all sales over $500.00 worldwide

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Andre de Dienes the Master

The following foreword was written by Norman Hall, editor of Photography in 1956. I hope more of you that know little of Andre’s full body of work take the time to study his work. He was not only a photographer he was an artist.

By Norman Hall 1956 Editor of “Photography”

ANDRE DE DIENES is one of the great photographers of these times. He at once a mixture of restlessness and curiosity; he is a person of great sensitivity, a perfectionist who can never quite be satisfied. He has the drive and dedication of an artist and the technique of a master photographer. His success in nude photography—and, I honestly believe, he is the finest exponent of this difficult field in the world—depends on a combination of varied attributes and skill. Certainly, the nude is no subject for the dilettante; but de Dienes is a specialist of many years’ experience.

Elsewhere he tells something of the trouble he takes in the selection of models and location, the choice and arrangement of “props”, the long wait—or rush, as the case may be—to catch the light just as he requires it for his purpose, the mental strain which accompanies the physical effort of a prolonged session. Unintentionally, too, he pays a considerable tribute to the Rolleiflex when he reveals that all the pictures in this most notable selection were made by that versatile little camera.

Characteristically, he attributes no special significance to the camera which is “only a tool, a small instrument which instantly obeys my command to snap the picture when I see it”. Despite this apparent disregard for the mechanics of photography, de dienes is a superb technician. That will be evident to all photographers who turn over the pages of this book. For them there is a special interest, quite apart from the beauty of the models and the ingenuity of treatment. There is a consistent brilliance in the print quality of de Dienes’ work and this seems to persist through any process of reproduction.

 But, more than technical competence, which is not rare among photographers, de Dienes has that gift of achieving perfect rapport with his model and this is a quality which cannot easily be explained or expressed in terms for inclusion with technical data. He has a profound reverence for the undraped female form; this, and a belief in the power of the camera. He has told me of his great desire to promote photography as an art, equal in importance with sculpture, painting, and music, and I know him well enough to believe implicitly in his sincerity. In his credo, printed here, he says much the same thing and reiterates his belief in photograph “as a medium in its own right”.Somehow, though, I feel that the measure of his creative urge goes further than the photographic medium, that the camera method is just too facile for his peace of mind. I believe he would be happier with a mallet and a chisel, lustily hewing his tribute to the beauty of form from the solid stone. This has been my guess and it is interesting to find he has written here, “Though I have absolutely no talent for sculpture, I sometimes marvel at a new pose and wish the model would turn to bronze or purest marble just as I see her”.

He deplores the misconstruction of purpose which frequently reveals itself in the attitude of some people towards nude photography. While paintings of the nude are treasured in museums and galleries, and sculpture of the undraped body is found and accepted in public places, photographers of the nude are frequently liable to suspicion from irresponsible sources.

De Dienes, by his sincere respect for the human body, his skill in matters of lighting and arrangement and his great gift for obtaining the full co-operation of his models, proves that the camera can be used with sympathy and dignity. Moreover, he does this without minimizing the wholesome sensuality of the subject.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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New Fall Prints 2008

Sam Ellis Prints is a primer on-line eBay store. Specializing in photographic prints of Hollywood Glamour, still life and Nudes. Photographers such as Andre de Dienes, George Barris, Ken Sax and more.

We are very proud to announce that we will be the first gallery on the planet to receive the new Andre de Dienes “Platinum Edition Prints” of Marilyn Monroe published by OneWest Publishing.

Most photographers and or publishers will take the two or three best images in a series of images to feature as limited edition photographic prints. In the case of Marilyn Monroe and the photographic work by Andre de Dienes OneWest Publishing has said, print them all. Yes, OneWest Publishing has produced all of the out takes from 1945 until 1953 as “Platinum Edition Prints”.

Norma Jean Bakers (AKA Marilyn Monroe) first professional modeling job was with Andre de Dienes. He photographed her from 1945 to 1953 and to this day some people feel de Dienes captured the true Marilyn Monroe.

 

 

  

 

New Fall Print 2008

Numbered Edition Fine Art Print

16″x16″ for easy framing

Stamped and Hand Numbered by The Andre de Dienes Archives and OneWest Publishing.

All prints come with a letter of Authenticity

Edition of 200

Archaically rated to last 100 years

Andre de Dienes was the first photographer to photograph the young Norma Jeane in 1945 as a professional model. They were engaged in 1946 and he photographed her off and on through 1953. Andre’s photographs of Marilyn appeared on over 23 magazine covers from 1945 to 1949 worldwide.

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FALL SALE Sept 29, 2008

 

  Sam Ellis Prints is a primer on-line eBay store. Specializing in Hollywood Glamour, still life and Nudes. Artist such as Andre de Dienes, George Barris, Ken Sax and more.Please stop by and look at some of the great vintage prints and limited editions prints we have for sale. If you see something you like we encourage you to make an offer.

We are doing it again, we had a great fall sale on Sept 19, 2008. Because of all of the e-mails we have gotten to do one more FALL SALE we are doing one more FALL SALE Sept 29, 2008. Over 100 beautiful vintage prints are up for auction at low starting bid and in our store. If you see something you like make an offer for it in our eBay store.

* FREE shipping for all sales over $500.00 worldwide

* FREE Shipping for all sales paid for with in 24 hours of the winning bid in the USA

Fall Sale September 19, 2008

Sam Ellis Prints is a primer on-line eBay store. Specializing in Hollywood Glamour, still life  and Nudes. Artist such as Andre de Dienes, George Barris, Ken Sax and more.

Please stop by and look at some of the great vintage prints and limited editions prints we have for sale. If you see something you like we encourage you to make an offer. You won’t find price’s this low again.

Some of the Great Benefits that come with our Fall Sale 2008, Sept 18, 2008

This is the largest auction up to date for Sam Ellis Prints. Over 100 beautiful vintage prints are up for auction at low starting bid and in our store. If you see something you like make an offer for it in our eBay store

* FREE shipping for all sales over $500.00 worldwide

* FREE Shipping for all sales paid for with in 24 hours of the winning bid in the USA