The Last Sitting

The Last Sitting

File:Marilyn Monroe - The Complete Last Sitting cover.jpg
Author	Bert Stern Annie Gottlieb
Subject	Marilyn Monroe
Publisher	William Morrow and Company
Publication date	October 1982
Pages	188
ISBN	0-688-01173-X
OCLC	8345846

The Last Sitting is a book and photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe by photographer Bert Stern. The photo shoot was commissioned by Vogue magazine in late June 1962, taking place over three daily sessions, just six weeks before she died.

Bert Stern first published The Last Sitting in 1982. The book included a large number of the over 2,500 images that Stern had shot, including contact sheets with images Monroe had disliked and crossed out. In the book, Stern recounted being enchanted by Monroe until a near-intimate encounter after the second day of shooting; he then realized that she was deeply troubled.

In 2008 Stern shot recreations of the images used by Vogue — with actress Lindsay Lohan as the model—for the February 25, 2008 issue of New York.

Publishing history

Hardcover editions

• The Last Sitting. William Morrow and Company (October 1982) ISBN 0-688-01173-X
• The Last Sitting. Orbis Publishing (1982) ISBN 0-85613-468-6
• The Last Sitting. Random House Value Publishing (January 9, 1988) ISBN 0-517-40254-8
• Marilyn Monroe's Last Sitting. Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH (December 31, 1998) ISBN 3-88814-261-X
• Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting. Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH (2000)
• Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting. Schirmer Art Books (July 31, 2006) ISBN 3-88814-191-5
• Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting. Te Neues Publishing Company (October 2000) ISBN 3-8238-5483-6

Paperback editions

• Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting. Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH (2000)
• La Derniere Seance: Marilyn Monroe. Éditions Gallimard (2006) ISBN 2-07-011857-6
• Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting. Random House Mondadori (July 10, 2007) ISBN 0-307-39164-7

External links

• Samples from The Last Sitting from Stern's official website [dead link]