After more than 45 years in a personal archive, a limited-edition
photography series, Marilyn Monroe: The Visit, has been released by
photographer Len Steckler.
Shot in December 1961, photographs depict a natural, relaxed Monroe during her first visit with poet Carl Sandburg, in Steckler's New York apartment.
On a wintry afternoon, Sandburg and Steckler patiently awaited Monroe, who arrived three hours later than planned, claiming she was at the hairdresser's trying to get her hair white to match Sandburg's. The two spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying conversation and cocktails, says Steckler. Sandburg was 83. Monroe was 35.
Monroe died nine months... more