{"product_id":"andre-de-dienes","title":"André de Dienes","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne day in 1945, fashion photographer \u003cstrong\u003eAndré de Dienes \u003c\/strong\u003emet an aspiring model named \u003cstrong\u003eNorma Jeane Dougherty\u003c\/strong\u003e.  It was a momentous moment, both for his personal life and his  photographic portfolio. Over the next few years, he would be briefly  engaged to Norma Jeane, take a number of adventurous road trips with  her, and build up a stunning series of portraits which would help launch  her modeling, and later movie, career.\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of de Dienes''s \u003cstrong\u003ephotographs and private memoirs \u003c\/strong\u003eoffers  an intimate picture of Norma Jeane the woman, before she was Marilyn  the icon. From their trip to see Norma Jeane’s mother in a mental  hospital to Marilyn’s visit a few days before her death, de Dienes''s  emotion-laden archive, often annotated with handwritten notes, offers a  deeply personal account of Monroe''s transformation from a sensitive,  ambitious girl into a deeply troubled global star.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492171751797,"sku":"9783754407097","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783754407097.jpg?v=1786528996","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/andre-de-dienes","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}