SITTING PRETTY
Yes, Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe wearing nothing but a scarf and jewels. But that's only the most iconic sitting from a long and fascinating life. A new documentary, Bert Stern: Original Mad Man, traces the career of the Brooklyn-born artist, who began in the mail room of Look magazine, became a sought-after commercial photographer in the 1950s, and went on to create indelible portraits of Catherine Deneuve, right, Sophia Loren, Suzy Parker—with whom he is shown below—and countless others. Director Shannah Laumeister, whose relationship with the photographer began when she posed for him at age 19, gets the charmingly grumbly artist, now 81, to discuss his work and his romances ("Making love and making photographs were closely connected," he says). The film opens on April 5 (bertsternmadman.com).…
