g-1, in association with Raj Prem Fine Art Photography, has compiled 3 ICONS of the late 20th century in a single photographic exhibit. Through fame and infamy, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and James Dean have transcended celebrity. Photographed by celebrated photographers Bert Stern, Richard Miller, Douglas Kirkland, the collection includes arguably Monroe’s most famous images from her ‘last sitting’ and Dean at his most ‘extra-ordinary’ on the set of his final movie, Giant. Bert Stern is perhaps best known for his work with Marilyn Monroe. ‘The Last Sitting’ was commissioned by Vogue and preceded her death by just six weeks. Stern has a fascination for ‘controversial women’ or ‘bad girls’, like ‘Britney, Paris, and Lindsay Lohan’. Monroe was, in a sense, the original tabloid queen. The Alfred Wertheimer photographs of Elvis Presley are unmediated, raw, and personal, revealing unguarded moments at rehersals, backstage, and on the road. These prints are limited editions signed front and verso. They are exhibition-quality, gelatine silver photographic prints on double-weight fibre paper, signed by the photographer. Richard Millar was given privileged access to James Dean. Shooting on and off the set, he has captured the ‘real’ Dean in unguarded and ‘most human’ form. James Dean’s death at a young age helped guarantee a legendary status. He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two such nominations posthumously. In November of 1961 a young photographer, Douglas Kirkland, from Fort Erie Canada found himself with the thrilling and terrifying job of photographing Marilyn Monroe. The assignment was to take the most sizzling picture he could get for the 25th anniversary issue of Look. Kirkland devised a simple set; a bed and white sheets, silk as Marilyn had requested. He procured the Dom Perignon and Frank Sinatra LP’s for which she’d ask. Eventually the two of them were alone with the camera. The results are sensuous provocative and some of the most evocative of Monroe’s inimitably complex character.