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Madonna is being called out for doing a photoshoot recreating Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death in a V Magazine cover shoot.
Iconic actress, model, and singer Marilyn Monroe passed away in 1962 of a drug overdose. Apparently, Madonna has always been fascinated with Marilyn.
Madonna, 63, tried to channel Monroe in a series of heavily retouched photos taken by photographer Steven Klein.
The series of images were inspired by the final photoshoot that Marilyn Monroe sat for, Bert Stern’s “The Last Sitting,” which took place only six weeks before she passed away at just 36 years old.
The images that disgusted viewers most are one that shows Madonna laying face down on a mattress, exposing her butt, and another where prescription pill bottles are visible on the nightstand.
“For some morbid and eerie reason, Madonna decides to re-create Marilyn Monroe’s death bed,” one person tweeted in response to the photoshoot.
“Yuck. Gross and inappropriate,” another wrote.
“She always had a creepy fascination with Marilyn,” said another response.
“This isn’t cool. Glamorizing suicide is the only takeaway once the shock factor wears off,” tweeted another critic.
“Must be sad to still need so much attention. And this is so gross,” said another.
The photographer, Steven Klein, has tried to defend the photoshoot, saying that it was less about Marilyn Monroe and more about emoting through the camera lens.
“We were not interested in recreating the images exactly but more importantly, we wanted to explore the relationship between photographer and subject. Both the friendship and the artistic process, and how art can imitate life and vice versa,” Klein said in a press release.
“When I sent Madonna the photos, she was really taken by the incandescent fragility of Marilyn at that moment in her life,” he added. “We decided to find a hotel suite and try to capture the liaison between a star and the camera, the mystery, and magic of this creative collaboration.”
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