Lawrence Schiller’s photo of Marilyn shooting her ‘pool scene’ from the unfinished Something’s Got to Give in 1962 is featured in Summer Snapshots: A Celebration of Sunlit Moments, on display at the Holden Luntz Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida until August 24th, as Nadja Sayej reports for Observer.
“It’s a gorgeous showcase of vintage photos taken by iconic photographers like Terry O’Neill, Arthur Elgort and Elliott Erwitt hung in the perfect locale for an exhibition of this type: Palm Beach. What you’ll find here is a glam, golden-hour version of summer. And not just that, but a perfectly populated summer: there’s Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway and Robert Redford, among other icons of screen and stage.
‘Each photograph is a testament to the timeless allure of summer, inviting viewers to bask in the glow of sunlit moments and rediscover the joy of the season,’ writes the gallery. Yet there iis a freshness to all the photos on view. Yes, it’s polished and glossy, without the sweat, humidity and frizzy hair the season can bring, but it still feels somehow attainable—if not now, then in some summer to come. Each photo is timeless and tells a story about summers of the past.
Sadly, the eras covered in the show weren’t particularly friendly to women photographers—it was very much a time when photography was very often defined by the female form captured by the male gaze, but at least they were classier in those days. We see blissfully unedited triumphs of light and composition, and each photo in the show can and should be considered its own masterclass. It was a classy lens through which people saw the world, and this exhibition captures that aptly.”
The Marilyn Report 