Marilyn Monroe photographer Bert Stern has re-created Monroe’s final famous photoshoot with Lindsay Lohan. Why?
The semi-nude series was released in New York Magazine 46 years after its inspiration, now known as “The Last Sitting,” appeared.
In 1962, a vulnerable, playful, and perhaps drunk Monroe posed for a series of photographs at the Hotel Bel-Air. She was dead six weeks later.
Now Lohan, whose own accomplishments have similarly been eclipsed by her celebrity – but orders of magnitude less – has stepped in for a sequel.
Despite her brilliant and iconic turns in “Freaky Friday” and “Herbie: Fully Loaded,” Lohan is not Marilyn Monroe: she’s not married to playwrights and sleeping with Presidents. Instead, she’s driving drunk over paparazzi. Would Elton John ever write a song about her? No he would not.
Lohan doesn’t even approach Monroe on a tragic scale, save for the fact that the 20-something Lohan looks older than Monroe, then 36, did. Mightn’t Stern have chosen Britney Spears or Madonna instead? How about Nikki Nine? Now that’s some tragedy.
Stern shot the session on film, rather than digitally, and re-created each shot down to the lighting.
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Wait, Bern Stern is still alive?
He did some great photography (not just the Marilyn Monroe photos).
I totally agree with you about the Last Sitting.
She does look older, and she also looks to have had those boobs done. Still, she looks a lot healthier (i.e. not anorexic) than she did pre-rehab.
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I would like to play Connect the Dots on her freckles. Just sayin’.