Marilyn Monroe Picture

Hequn · 4 Jan 2009 at 04:29

I've been trying to source any information on this picture, like photographer, magazine, collection, anything and I can't. Really want a high resolution version to print out or even buy if there's a good poster out there of it. Best I've found is this:

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

crunchee · 4 Jan 2009 at 04:38

Photoshop+resize?

yantorsen · 4 Jan 2009 at 04:43

just had a play in photoshop, looks a bit poo any bigger though:

Hequn · 4 Jan 2009 at 04:49

crunchee said:
Photoshop+resize?

Plannign to print it A3, so that image scaled to A3 will look terrible. Plus I know there's atleast one better quality version out there somewhere, probably a few.

yantorsen · 4 Jan 2009 at 05:02

Hequn said:
Plannign to print it A3, so that image scaled to A3 will look terrible. Plus I know there's atleast one better quality version out there somewhere, probably a few.

Depends how far away your going to be looking at it, if you only have to look at it a metre or more away then you could get away with it, I managed to get it even bigger, with a bit of time you could get it fairly big.

Hequn · 4 Jan 2009 at 05:25

Many thanks for the effort but I want it in very good quality really, I've found some information on it finally; it was taken by Sam Shaw at Marilyns Roxbury home and I've managed to find a better image as can be seen here:

Might do some research on image resizing, see if there's any app's that might help or such.

fail at the internets · 4 Jan 2009 at 05:28

Why are/were people so in awe of her, she was average looking.

Amp34 · 4 Jan 2009 at 05:29

If you're serious about printing it off to A3 you will want something at a real MINIMUM of around 2000 pixels on the long side, ideally around 4000 would be good. The only place you are remotely likely to find one that big is one one of the professional image library sites like alamony (not spelt right) and Reuters, but be warned, you WILL have to pay for it and it may be very expensive.

Zip · 4 Jan 2009 at 05:30

fail at the internets said:
Why are/were people so in awe of her, she was average looking.

Probably because if she looked downshe couldnt see her toes by going from that poster

Things change I've changed · 4 Jan 2009 at 05:32

How big are you thinking of having the image ?, also how are you getting it printed ?, depending on how big you want it it will most probably end up have a rough grainy look to it so I'd advise you get it printed on canvas, it will help compliment that look more.

Canvas Prints

fail at the internets said:
Why are/were people so in awe of her, she was average looking.

Really,

She really was quite a stunner, although personally when it comes to classic movie stars I'm a great fan of Lauren Bacal.

Doran · 4 Jan 2009 at 07:30

That woman was so fit.

Davy644 · 4 Jan 2009 at 07:55

And Natural too

^TANK^ · 4 Jan 2009 at 08:04

She was a very beautiful woman, no doubts about that!

V4NT0M · 4 Jan 2009 at 08:05

Wow, that could have been taken yesterday!

Geffen · 4 Jan 2009 at 09:36

There was a shop selling a few poster sized photograhs of Marilyn Monroe next to my work a few months back but the £25,000 price tag put me off buying one. I'm not sure if you get the original negative when paying that much.

milkinc13 · 4 Jan 2009 at 19:05

natural beauty, unlike the fakery of today, absolutly beauitful person

Azagoth · 4 Jan 2009 at 19:08

Nice to look at, but still an alcoholic druggie though.

Chimerical · 4 Jan 2009 at 19:09

fail at the internets said:
Why are/were people so in awe of her, she was average looking.

Because there was more to it than that. I don't really find her massively attractive but she's a) dead and b) before my time.

We're all used to looking at size 8 coked-up models nowadays so our perception of beauty has changed.

Its all about the context.

Doran · 4 Jan 2009 at 19:13

Azagoth said:
Nice to look at, but still an alcoholic druggie though.

Coming from a NIN fan.

tisonlyme · 4 Jan 2009 at 19:17

Chimerical said:
Because there was more to it than that. I don't really find her massively attractive but she's a) dead and b) before my time.

We're all used to looking at size 8 coked-up models nowadays so our perception of beauty has changed.

Its all about the context.

True. These days she'd probably only make it to being a plus size model for a cheapo catalogue or something!