Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Marilyn Monroe exhibition photographs,
Date (inclusive): 1975-1976
Collection number: 243
Extent: 7 flat boxes 5 oversize flat boxes
Abstract: Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller published the book,
Marilyn Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers, ca. 1973. The collection consists of a set of original photographic art prints (oversize and poster size) of Marilyn Monroe
as displayed in Peri's Pictures' Marilyn Monroe Exhibition.
Language: Finding aid is written in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Performing Arts Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift, 1985.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Marilyn Monroe exhibition photographs (Collection 243). Performing Arts Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Biography
Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller published the book,
Marilyn: Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers, ca. 1973. To promote the publication, photographs were generated from the book and used in three exhibitions titled,
Marilyn Monroe: The Legend, The Truth. Peri's Pictures acquired the exhibits' photographs which were displayed at Peri's Santa Monica Gallery under the title,
Marilyn Monroe Exhibition (ca. 1970s-1980s).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of a set of original photographic art prints of Marilyn Monroe as displayed in Peri's Pictures', Marilyn
Monroe Exhibition. Includes oversize and poster size photographic prints most which were originally found in the publication,
Marilyn Monroe: The Legend, The Truth. Includes images originally created ca. 1945-ca. 1952 by photographers such as Eve Arnold,
George Barris, John Bryson, Andre de Dienes, Milton Greene, Lawrence Schiller, Sam Shaw and others. Whenever possible the
processor has tried to identify the photographer.
Organization and Arrangement
The collection is loosely arranged by what appears to be the photographer.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Monroe, Marilyn,1926-1962 -- Photographs.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Archival resources