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My journey ends here...

DE DIENES André

Date of birth: December 18, 1913, Hungary.

Date of death: April 11, 1985, Hollywood.

Portrait :

Place of living: in 1945 : Garden of Allah Hotel, Sunset Boulevard.

Practise: photographer.

Story

Son of a banker.

He learned photograohy alone.

He lived and worked in Rome, Paris and London.

He arrived in the USA in 1938, with the help of Arnold Gingirch from Esquire magazine, and opened a photo studio in New York City.

David O.Selznick, independant producer, made him come to Hollywood in 1944, to take pictures of Ingrid Bergman.

In 1945, he had a strong reputation as photographer.

He was aged 32, had an attractive build and the blue eyes when he met Norma Jeane, in November 1945, through the Blue Book Modeling Agency.

He took the first pictures of Norma Jeane in 1945. They were pictures of a pretty girl, typical of the era : on road 101, up north Hollywood, or in a field with a new-born lamb, in denim trousers and red blouse, or on the Malibu beach with shorts and sweater.

Country :

With pumpkins :

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White blouse and black ties :

White and red blouse :

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Red blouse :

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Rustle dress :

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On the road :

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Other:

Mohair cardigan

Later, they had more longer sessions; she refused to pose naked. She also refused his compliments, his advances and the letters he slid under the door.

They worked and traveled together, in the West, the South and the North, from the beaches around Los Angeles, until the Mount Hood, going through Las Vegas, the Mojave Desert, the Yosemite Valley and Oregon, where André DeDienes went with her to visit her mother, Gladys Baker.

Journey California, Nevada, Oregon

California

Beach ball :

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