In 1962, American author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist Ralph Ginzburg began publication of his first major work, Eros, which was a quarterly hardbound periodical containing articles and photo-essays on love and sex. Herb Lubalin was the art director and second on the masthead. Only four issues of Eros were published, largely because Ginzburg was indicted under federal obscenity laws for the fourth issue.
Issue no. 3 was centered on an 18-page photo shoot of the recently deceased Marilyn Monroe (the pictures were taken by Bert Stern six weeks before her passing). It also features a piece by Bonnie Prudden, an extract from Fanny Hill and an article on Samuel Roth.
Excerpt from preface: “On June 21, Photographer Bert Stern began to take the last studio pictures ever made of the woman who had become, as much as any woman ever had, the sex symbol for this world. Six weeks after the memorable photographs were taken, Marilyn Monroe was dead.”
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Eros Vol. 1, Number 3
In 1962, American author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist Ralph Ginzburg began publication of his first major work, Eros, which was a quarterly hardbound periodical containing articles and photo-essays on love and sex. Herb Lubalin was the art director and second on the masthead. Only four issues of Eros were published, largely because Ginzburg was indicted under federal obscenity laws for the fourth issue.
Issue no. 3 was centered on an 18-page photo shoot of the recently deceased Marilyn Monroe (the pictures were taken by Bert Stern six weeks before her passing). It also features a piece by Bonnie Prudden, an extract from Fanny Hill and an article on Samuel Roth.
Excerpt from preface:
“On June 21, Photographer Bert Stern began to take the last studio pictures ever made of the woman who had become, as much as any woman ever had, the sex symbol for this world. Six weeks after the memorable photographs were taken, Marilyn Monroe was dead.”
$50.00, phone orders available. Call the shop at (323) 651-0131.