Bert Stern

Bert Stern: Adventures captures in a sweeping array of images the remarkable career of Bert Stern, one of the legendary figures in contemporary photography. Stern's meteoric rise in the 1950s advertising world is represented by such classic images as his vodka advertisement in which an Egyptian pyramid is seen inverted in a martini glass. His portraits of stars ranging from Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn to Drew Barrymore, including the spellbinding 1962 "last sitting" photographs of Marilyn Monroe, form a gallery of the most beautiful women of our time. In the 1960s, he became the…