In 1945, Bill Carroll photographed Norma Jeane Dougherty, a charming teenager with a great smile, on a beach in Malibu. Today, he's showing those photos in an exhibit at Andrew Weiss Gallery on South Beverly Drive. Now in his 90's, Carroll will be in conversation at the gallery to discuss Becoming Marilyn: the photos that started it all. He believes that he captured the real, untainted Norma Jeane, beaming with light brown hair, flowing from pose to pose without even a prompt. Carroll paid her $20 for her day's work of modeling so he could use the best of the pictures as a display at his film processing laboratory. He never saw her again and in fact, it wasn't until 1968, six years after her death, that he stumbled across a box of slides entitled, Norma Jeane. What a find and what an exhibition. Running through September 18th. http://www.andrewweiss.com/
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Seen in the Luxe lobby
In 1945, Bill Carroll photographed Norma Jeane Dougherty, a charming teenager with a great smile, on a beach in Malibu. Today, he's showing those photos in an exhibit at Andrew Weiss Gallery on South Beverly Drive. Now in his 90's, Carroll will be in conversation at the gallery to discuss Becoming Marilyn: the photos that started it all. He believes that he captured the real, untainted Norma Jeane, beaming with light brown hair, flowing from pose to pose without even a prompt. Carroll paid her $20 for her day's work of modeling so he could use the best of the pictures as a display at his film processing laboratory. He never saw her again and in fact, it wasn't until 1968, six years after her death, that he stumbled across a box of slides entitled, Norma Jeane. What a find and what an exhibition. Running through September 18th. http://www.andrewweiss.com/
