Actress Kim Novak, 21, lounging on a satin bed, 1954.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by J.R. Eyerman, 1948.

Marilyn Monroe by J.R. Eyerman for LIFE magazine, 1951

Marilyn Monroe, taking singing lessons with bandleader Phil Moore, at West Hollywood nightclub, the Mocambo. Photographed by J. R. Eyerman (1949)

MARILYN MONROE practicing ballet, photographed by J. R. Eyerman (1949)

J.R. Eyerman (US, 1906 - 1985)

Audience wearing special 3D glasses to view film Bwana Devil, shot with new “natural vision” 3d technology. Paramount Theater, Hollywood, California, November 26, 1952.

There exist at least two versions: one, employed for the cover of the Society of the Spectacle, depicts its elegantly attired audience in a virtually trance-like state of absorption, their faces grim, their lips pursed, the other shot of the same audience, however, the 3-D spectators are laughing, their expressions of hilarity conveying the pleasure of an uproarious, active spectatorship.

A detail of J.R. Eyerman’s photo (1952) was used for the cover design of the 1983 English edition of Guy Debord’s La Société du Spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle). The cropped selection used for the book was also flipped from left to right.

Cover of the 1983 edition of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle

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(Art: Photograph by J. R. Eyerman)

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We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. 

~Chris Hedges :: (Book: Empire of Illusion)

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"Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself, educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."

- Doris Lessing

[Philo Thoughts]

A scene from a road trip through the American Northwest, 1960.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by J.R Eyerman on the heights of the Hollywood Hills circa 1950.

Kim Novak by J.R Eyerman for Jeanne Eagels, 1957

Marilyn Monroe photographed by J.R. Eyerman (1950)

Hanging out at the feed store. J.R. Eyerman. 1942

Nevada grocery store, May 1950

J.R. Eyerman photographed Las Vegas and Reno for story about gambling published in LIFE magazine 6/19/50. The name of the store was not recorded.

Marilyn Monroe, Foto de J.R Eyerman, 1950...

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (J.R. Eyerman. 1952)