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June 21, 2017

Marilyn Monroe and Coco Chanel Appear in This All-Women Exhibition

By Chloe Fein

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Photo: Eve Arnold/© Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos

To mark the 70th anniversary of Magnum Photos, Soho’s Staley-Wise Gallery is celebrating female photographers who captured female subjects. The exhibition “Women Seeing Women,” which opened June 20, features 12 renowned photographers including Eve Arnold (who was a member of the Magnum art cooperative), Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Deborah Turbeville.

In one colorful photo by Arnold,* Marilyn Monroe wears her signature red lip and bouncy blonde curls. In another image by Dahl-Wolfe,* Coco Chanel sports 1950s-style tweezed eyebrows in a tailored suit. Other photographers reimagine the ordinary, like Toni Frissell’s Two Models Drinking a Coke. The exhibition’s curators sought to capture the essence of a Georgia O’Keeffe quote from 1925, “I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.”

Click ahead to see Rihanna tangled in black cords on stage and Eleanor Roosevelt shot by Genevieve Naylor.

“Women Seeing Women” is on view until August 31.

*This post has been updated to correctly attribute photos to Eve Arnold and Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

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Marilyn Monroe in Nevada Desert during the filming of "The Misfits," 1960 by Eve Arnold.  Photo: Eve Arnold/© Eve Arnold / Magnum Photo... Marilyn Monroe in Nevada Desert during the filming of "The Misfits," 1960 by Eve Arnold.  Photo: Eve Arnold/© Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos
Coco Chanel leaning on chair in her apartment, Paris, 1954 by Louise Dahl-Wolfe.  Photo: Louise Dahl-Wolfe/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
From, "I Am About To Call It A Day," 2010-2014 by Bieke Depoorter.  Photo: Bieke Depoorter/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Two Models Drinking Coke, 1940s by Toni Frissell.  Photo: Toni Frissell/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Love Parade, Berlin, 1999 by Cristina Garcia Rodero.  Photo: Cristina Garcia Rodero/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Hot Dog Stand: Trish Goff, Los Angeles, Vogue, 1993 by Pamela Hanson.  Photo: Pamela Hanson/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Hanan Saeed Abdo, Germany, 2017 by Diana Markosian.  Photo: Diana Markosian/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
The Passion Of Rome, 1986 by Sheila Metzner.  Photo: Sheila Metzner/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Model in Alexander Calder's Studio, 1946 by Genevieve Naylor.  Photo: Genevieve Naylor/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Eleanor Roosevelt, Hyde Park, New York, 1956 by Genevieve Naylor.  Photo: Genevieve Naylor/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Crowned in Glory, 1999 by Alessandra Sanguinetti.  Photo: Alessandra Sanguinetti/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Wedding of the Maharaja's son, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1966 by Marilyn Silverstone.   Photo: Marilyn Silverstone/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Portrait of Somayyeh, Tehran, Iran, 2014 by Newsha Tavakolian.  Photo: Newsha Tavakolian/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Bath House, New York, VOGUE, 1975 by Deborah Turbeville.  Photo: Deborah Turbeville/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
Rihanna, Berlin 2009 by Ellen Von Unwerth.  Photo: Ellen von Unwerth/Courtesy of the Staley-Wise Gall
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