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911:"On her first cover of Life magazine in 1957, Marilyn Monroe famously said she only wore Chanel No.5 to bed. Now, a newly found recording of her from 1960 discussing the subject further with Marie Claire's then-editor in chief Georges Belmont is being used in a new advertising campaign for the fragrance set to break this fall. She said people pose questions. "They ask me: 'What do you wear to bed? A pajama top? The bottoms of the pajamas? A nightgown?' So I said, 'Chanel No.5,' because it's the truth....," she explained. "And yet, I don't want to say nude. But it's the truth!" The voice of Monroe who passed away in 1962 is to be accompanied by a photograph of her holding a scent bottle, taken by Ed Feingersh . The ad will run in publications and on television." Karimzadeh, Marc. "Memo Pad." WWD October 18, 2013: 11. Popular Magazines Plus. Web. February 17, 2016. 327: 169: 834:"Winogrand eventually got a job as a stringer for the Pix agency. He gained access to a darkroom and an office where he could talk with other photographers. One of the other photographers, Ed Feingersh introduced Winogrand to the agent Henrietta Brackman, probably because he was tired of Winogrand “borrowing” materials all the time. She got Winogrand commissions shooting various general interest stories for Colliers and Argosy." 33: 450:
Full of praise for his colleague's photography, Stein says that though many want to see 'Eddie's' work in public collections of 'museums to give him the recognition he deserves'. His collection is now in the archives of Life Magazine and Getty Images and in the process of being edited and scanned,
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Edwin (a.k.a. Edward, commonly 'Ed' or 'Eddie') Feingersh was born in Brooklyn on April 21, 1925, the second of three sons of Harry Feingersh, a women's fashion designer and Rae Feingersh (née Press). His Jewish grandfather Abraham, a tailor, migrated to America from
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photography under seemingly impossible conditions was well recognised. His pictures of Marilyn Monroe are his best known, but he was a prolific photojournalist throughout the 1950s. Two of his moody photographs of jazz performers were selected by
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between his bouts of frenetic activity, and in the years immediately after the Monroe shoot, and after a brief, failed marriage (1957) to Miriam (Mimi) Sakol (b.1933), he gave up photography.
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he customarily used and which was starting then to be adopted by picture magazines in America previously wary of Japanese equipment.
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Miller, Jennifer Jean (2014) Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio - Love In Japan, Korea & Beyond, J.J. Avenue Productions U.S.A.
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For Ed Feingersh and his connection to Brodovitch see U.S.Camera 1950.ed. Tom Maloney (New York: U. S. Camera, 1949), 239.
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photo agency in 1948. For them he produced stories for major magazines including a day in the life of a woman doctor for
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The photographs he made of her during the week March 24–30, 1955 as she prepares for two appearances; opening night of
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Durniak, John (1957) 'Ed Feingersh: A Memorial Portfolio'. In Photography (USA) Annual 1957 pps.13, 148-157, 247-248
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and consequently they are the most seen of Feingersh's photojournalistic output, accessed via countless Monroe
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fragrance. It featured Feingersh's photograph of the actress splashing herself with a bottle of the perfume.
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ran an advertising campaign using a recorded interview with Monroe in which she is asked about her use of
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Bird, Nichola Cecelia. "GETTING IN ON THE ACT." (1998) is a Leeds University PhD submission available at
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and Mel Ferrier in Paris, again candidly, capturing their actions in dance rehearsals under difficult
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in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be
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He took up photography during while serving in Germany in the Army, where he bought an inexpensive
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Scully, Julia (1979) Seeing Pictures. In MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY July 1979, U.S.A. pps.29, 150, 152.
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and shot without flash in available light. The actress and her new production-company partner
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asked him to repeat the exercise in 1957, and he accepted their assignment to photograph
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that revealed the unpublished images from the Monroe series. This collection is held by
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Desfor, I. (November 13, 1956). Light and photography. The Christian Science Monitor
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Marilyn Monroe day by day : a timeline of people, places, and events
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Argosy's Tips from Photographers: Mistakes That Make Pictures, (cl)
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What will happen to this boy?, produced by George B. Leonard, Jr.,
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In 1987, 26 years after Ed Feingersh died, photography collector
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Une blonde Ă  Manhattan : Ed Feingersh et Marilyn Monroe
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Une blonde Ă  Manhattan : Ed Feingersh et Marilyn Monroe
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Feingersh, Ed; LaBrasca, Bob; Michael Ochs Archives (1990),
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for her ride on a pink elephant at a charity event at
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Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund) (October 16, 2014),
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Ed Feingersh, Self-Portrait with Marilyn Monroe 1955
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Index


Julia Scully
Brooklyn
Manhattan
PIX Publishing
Alexey Brodovitch
New School of Social Research
photojournalist
Pix Publishing
available light
Edward Steichen
MoMA
The Family of Man

Moldavia
pogroms
Haaren High School
35-mm camera
G.I. Bill
Gjon Mili
stringer
Pix Publishing
McCall's
Argosy
Look
Albert Schweitzer
fighter squadron's
Greenland
Korean War
Battle of Pork Chop Hill

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