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“‘We need a bed, a white silk sheet, and Dom Perignon. And I won’t have anything on but that white silk sheet.’ That was very exciting for a young man like me.” Monroe was one of Kirkland’s earliest subjects as an up and coming photojournalist working for Look magazine and later for Life, as was Elizabeth Taylor. Now, at 82, he has captured intimate portraits of some of Hollywood’s most iconic stars, from Charlie Chaplin to Audrey Hepburn to Meryl Streep to Jack Nicholson.

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“When I think of it, I’m amazed,” Kirkland tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I almost look over my shoulder and say, ‘Was there another Doug Kirkland?’ Because he couldn’t have done this much.”

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“On a rainy November night in 1961, a young and green Canadian photographer named Douglas Kirkland found himself in a Hollywood studio with nothing but his camera, a bottle of Dom and the most famous woman in the world. The shoot, which one of Kirkland’s earliest assignments, resulted in some of the most arresting images ever taken of Marilyn Monroe, who posed for Kirkland the year before she died.”

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Great stories about the ‘Beyond The Lens’ photos by Douglas Kirkland! Full of great behind the scenes stories.

The Exhibition opens April 29th in Beverly Hills.

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