Page 31 - Studio International - December 1967

Richard Hamilton implication that her death made all the more poignant; there is
My Marilyn 1965 also a fortuitous narcissism, for the negating cross is also the
Oil and collage on photograph on panel the childish symbol for a kiss. My Marilyn starts with the signs
40+ x 48 in, and elaborates the graphic possibilities these suggest.'
(Catalogue of lolas exhibition, dated March 1967)
'Marilyn Monroe demanded that the results of photographic
sessions be submitted to her for vetting before publication. She
made indications, brutally and beautifully in conflict with the
image, or on proofs and transparencies to give approval or
reject; or suggestions for retouching that might make it accept-
able. After her death some were published with her markings
—a batch by Bert Stern in Eros, others by George Barris. The
aggressive obliteration of her own image has a self-destructive