Studies of the Female Nude silas-finch are reproduced here for the

are reproduced here for the first time in large-format sheet-fed gravures

to connect the viewer

narrative qualities

he elaborated each into a sequence

11 x 7 inches

Studies of the Female Nude silas-finch are reproduced here for theDuring 1945 Andre de Dienes (19131985) photographed a young model named Norma Jean. His subsequent five year working relationship with the woman who became Marilyn Monroe is the beginning of de Dieness career in Hollywood. He photographed celebrities, and his documentary work took him from Muscle Beach in Venice to sharecroppers working the cotton fields of the deep South. But his first love in photography was the female nude, and in his lifetime he