Weegee

Monroe
c. 1960

A black and white photo of a woman with her eyes closed and lips puckered, as if blowing a kiss. Her hair is styled in soft waves, and she wears large hoop earrings. The image has a distorted, wavy quality, giving it an abstract or dreamlike appearance.

A black and white photo of a woman with her eyes closed and lips puckered, as if blowing a kiss. Her hair is styled in soft waves, and she wears large hoop earrings. The image has a distorted, wavy quality, giving it an abstract or dreamlike appearance.

Not on view

Date
c. 1960

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 3/16in. (25.4 × 20.8 cm) Image: 9 1/4 × 7 1/2in. (23.5 × 19.1 cm)

Accession number
96.240.8

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Murray & Isabella Rayburn Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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