Contact Sheet Print: Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of ‘The Misfits’, Nevada, 1960 Special Edition

Contact Sheet Print: Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of ‘The Misfits’, Nevada, 1960 Special EditionHaving dedicated a lifetime to the observation and documentation of the United States, Elliott Erwitts work now stands as a testament to what it means to be a modern American. From grandstanding politicians and celebrity culture, to cinematic vistas, Erwitts vision of the nation manages to be both unique in perspective and universally affecting. Here, he captures the cast of The Misfits during filming in Nevada in 1960. Erwitt photographed Marilyn

” Monroe would die less than a year after the completion of filming

“The Adventures of Guille and Belinda” is the story or

In the 1990s he returned to his urban origins

“It was a radical change for me

which gradually seeped into his work from 1941 right up until the end of his life

For the book Contact Sheets

was part of a larger effort to promote art and the ballet in Russia

Dennis Stock set out on a road trip around California to document a cultural phenomenon

I saw the situation and I said

His book on the Jews in Germany was published in 1961

a subject that was widely discussed in the media at that time

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