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Publicity shot by Frank Powolny, 1952. Of all the Marilyn photographs, it was this portrait by Frank Powolny that immortalized her. Andy Warhol chose this picture as the basis for his famous silk-screen series. One version of this print on a red back- ground (in a relatively small format, 10 1 x 10 1 cm, on canvas) was recently sold at a New York auction for the astronomical sum of $3.8 million. Through Philippe Halsman’s famous series of 1952, Marilyn Monroe made it to the cover of Lif e for the first time. Photographing the twenty-six-year-old Marilyn with half-closed eyes and slightly parted lips, Halsman made her into a sex goddess. He described the situation: “Finally I asked her to stand in the corner of the room. I was facing her with my camera, the Lif e reporter and assistant at my side. Marilyn was cornered and she flirted with all three of us, and the photograph eventually made the cover of Lif e. The cover gave her the status of a star” The pictures on the left are contact prints of the series. Glamour photo in a lace negligee by Bernard of Hollywood, 1952. Marilyn in a negligee, eyes closed, in her apartment in a suburb of Los Angeles, 1952. Philippe Halsman, traveling for Lif e at the time, remarked on the furnishings: “What impressed me in its shabby living room was the obvious striving for self-improvement of the alleged dumb blonde. I saw a photograph of Eleonora Duse and a multitude of books which I did not expect there either, such as the works of Dostoyevski, Freud, The History of Fabian Socialism, etc.” Philippe Halsman continued: “On the floor were two barbells.`Are you using them?’ I asked. `Yes,’ she replied. `I’m fighting gravity .”‘ Photograph by Philippe Halsman, 1952. Photograph by Philippe Halsman, 1952, on the same occasion. Halsman: “Later, between two interm